Analysis and Data Cleaning Code for Physical Activity, Inflammation, and Depression Study

Analysis and data cleaning code used in the manuscript 'The longitudinal relation between physical activity, inflammation, and depression: A mediational analysis using the Health and Retirement Study' by Andrew Levihn-Coon, Jasper A.J. Smits, and Christopher G. Beevers. The code was deposited by the author to the Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse and last updated on October 15, 2025.

Use Cases

• Replicate the statistical mediation analysis described in the manuscript based on the provided code.
• Clean and prepare Health and Retirement Study data for longitudinal analysis of physical activity, inflammation, and depression.
• Adapt the provided data processing pipeline for similar studies on aging and mental health.

Strengths

• Code is directly linked to a peer-reviewed manuscript, providing methodological transparency.
• Last updated on 2025-10-15, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Code used for analysis in a specific academic manuscript.

Time Range

Based on the Health and Retirement Study, which is a longitudinal panel study.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-15 06:42:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (inferred from the Health and Retirement Study's primary focus).