Predicting Injury Severity in Older Adults

Principal Investigator: Dr. Thomas Hartka, UVa Dept. of Emergency Medicine

Previous research has shown that older adults are more susceptible to severe injury than their younger counterparts after being involved in a motor vehicle collision. Dr. Hartka was interested in determining whether there are age-related differences in the accuracy of severe injury prediction following a motor vehicle collision. Using R, I developed age-specific logistic regression models and assessed their accuracy, and generated unique graphs and animations to visualize the data more effectively.

Code I wrote for this project can be found on Github.

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Christina Gancayco
Research Computing Associate