In the spirit of open source and collaboration, this organization GitHub account is established to introduce public users of NHANES data to each other to share and improve code for better science, analysis, and health.
Individuals and organizations interested in building a community of users around NHANES data.
- Build a repository, or just fork on here.
- Build a wiki, or add to a wiki.
- Ask questions, answer questions, create a knowledge base
- Share to avoid reinventing the wheel
- Track errors
- It is up to you: If you have a problem, someone else problem shares that problem. Work together on a solution.
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. The survey is unique in that it combines interviews and physical examinations.
Read more [here] (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm)
[Sign up] (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/nhanes_listserv.htm) for the listserv to keep up to date on activities, products and releases, and community driven Q&A.
Check out this published peer-review literature on [PubMed] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=national+health+and+nutrition+examination+survey) See publications on [Google Scholar] (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=1,9&as_vis=1&q=%22national+health+and+nutrition++examination+survey%22&scisbd=1)