Predicting Risk of Opioid Use Disorder

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Student Researcher: Zach Farahany

Mentor: Dr. Praveen Madiraju

Research goals: Gain insight into how Covid-19 has been affecting the population of opioid users. Inspect non-opioid and opioid using populations for statistically significant differences involving the prevalence of Covid-19. Implement multiple machine learning models to select for significant features


Project Plan

Week 1

  • Complete Orientation
  • Begin Literature reviews
  • Learn basic machine learning
  • Gain an outlook on research goals

Week 2

  • Continue systematic literature review of relevant articles
  • Responsible conduct training
  • Complete CITI training
  • Technical writing training

Week 3

  • Continue systematic literature review of relevant articles
  • Prepare presentation
  • Perform data cleaning

Week 4

Week 5

  • Good presentations talk
  • Mini-presentation

Week 6

Week 7

  • Data ethics talk
  • Create poster

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

  • Presentation
  • Poster session
  • Papers due