For New Team Members

All team members should follow these procedures! Please go over these procedures and let Dr. Julia or your mentor know if you need any clarifications. 

In addition, complete all tasks below

1. Complete the forms before you start working or volunteering in our lab.
   • • Student Researcher Nondisclosure Agreement
     • Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement
2. Go over the lab ethics: provide your weekly hours to Dr. Julia. These hours are displayed in the lab so our team can better manage the projects. You should respect the hours. If you cannot be present at your workstation during your hours due to some issue (even if you work remotely) then notify Dr. Julia ASAP. If you need to change your hours for a certain week, email the updated schedule to Dr. Julia. It is expected that you are available via emails at any moment during your working hours. Make sure you get notifications from Outlook and respond to the emails ASAP. We manage several projects with different deadlines and expect that you value our team’s time and efforts, and practice responsible work ethics.  
3. Read papers authored by our students:
   • • Owens, V., Ha, T. and Soulakova, J.N. (2019). Widespread Use of Flavored e-Cigarettes and Hookah Tobacco in the United States. Preventive Medicine Reports 11:290-296.
     • Soulakova, J.N., Pack, R. and Ha, T (2018). Patterns and Correlates of Purchasing Cigarettes on Indian Reservations Among Daily Smokers in the United States. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 192: 88-93.
     • Soulakova, J.N., Pham, T., Owens, V. and Crockett, L.J. (2018). Prevalence and Factors Associated with Use of Hookah Tobacco Among Young Adults in the U.S. Addictive Behaviors 88: 21-25.
     • Soulakova, J.N., Tang, C-Y., Leonardo, S. and Taliaferro, L.A. (2018). Motivational Benefits of Social Support and Behavioral Interventions for Smoking Cessation. Journal of Smoking Cessation. 1-11. doi:10.1017/jsc.2017.26
     • Mai, Y., Leonardo, S. and Soulakova, J.N. (2018). Smoke-free Homes among Single-parent Families: Differences Associated with Parental Race/ethnicity and Smoking Behaviors. Preventive Medicine Reports 9:18-23.
4. Go over these statistical methods, we use them commonly:
   • • Chi-square test (easy introduction)
     • Chi-square test (more in depth)
     • Introduction to logistic regression video
     • Ha, T. and Soulakova, J. (2017). Statistical Analyses of Public Health Surveys Using SAS® Survey Package. Proceedings of the 2017 SouthEast SAS Users Group Conference, paper 189, Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
     • Ha, T. and Soulakova, J.N. (2018). Importance of Adjusting for Multi-Stage Design when Analyzing Data from Complex Surveys. International Chinese Statistical Association Book Series in Statistics: Frontier of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. Chapter 12: 257-268 in Editors Yichuan Zhao and Ding-Geng Chen. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. ISBN 978-3-319-99389-8.
5. Complete the Basic SAS Course
   • • Penn State | Introduction to SAS
6. Go over the information on how to write a literature review:
   • • University of West Florida | Literature Review: Conducting & Writing
7. Review the key steps of student’s research project using this example of the key steps for analysis of categorical outcomes
8. Ask Dr. Julia or your lab mentor to create a folder for your project(s) on One Drive (this is the cloud space used by our team), please keep all lab-related files in the folder(s) and work directly on the files through One Drive. Do not delete any files, save all copies!! If you are making any changes to the existing file, save it as a new file.
9. If you are working on a poster presentation, go over the poster requirements
10. Please join the American Statistical Association. We cover the membership dues for all team members.

If you have any questions or encounter any difficulties then let Dr. Julia or your lab mentor know.