Biostatisticians’ Goals When Working with You
- Enhance the integrity and validity of your study
- Ensure the design has strong internal validity and, if possible, external validity
- Specific aims
- Measurement quality
- Sampling plan
- Randomization procedures
- Data management
- Statistical power
- Appropriate analyses
Start Working with Us Early and Always!
- Early in proposal development stage is the best
- Studies have problems, that is OK
- Definitely consult with a statistician before making changes and hoping for the best
- If biostatisticians are active collaborators on the project, they can sometimes see trouble ahead and help to prevent or alleviate it
- Involve us in database design and data management approach
- We are an important part of the DSMB
- We love to do complex analyses but in reality that is a very small part of how we spend our time on a project
Members
Subhash Aryal
Administration/Healthcare Organizational Leadership
Adult Health
Aging
Anesthesia
Biostatistics
Education
Electronic Medical Records
Informatics
Mental Health
Chakra Budhathoki
Randomized controlled trials
Meta-analysis
Mixed modeling
HIV/AIDS
Cardiovascular disease
Ginger Hanson
Multi-level regression – nested designs
Measurement development – factor analysis
Cluster analysis
Social network analysis
Work and health
Gender-base violence
How To Get In Touch With Us
To request a Biostatistical Consultation, please select this link and complete the request form:
Weekly Data Clinic
Biostatistics and Methods Core plans to restart “the Weekly Data Clinic” for doctoral students, 1-hour Zoom session every week on Wednesday from 11am-12noon EST!
- Role of Co-Investigator on the proposal
- Biostatistician role in proposal development
- Align aims, methods, and analyses
- Conduct preliminary study analyses, if needed
- Conduct power analyses
- Write the analysis section of proposals
- Review the budget to ensure support for data management, data cleaning, and analyses
- We are able to help depending on the scope of the request
- Best approach
- Meet with Subhash Aryal to discuss what is needed, devise an analysis plan, and timeline
- Work will be assigned to a Biostatistics Core member based on interest, expertise, and workload
- Depending on the amount involvement in the project, the biostatistician may be considered for co-authorship
- Monthly seminars
- Measurement
- Data Management
- Mediators and Moderators
- Adaptive Trials
- Pragmatic Trials
- Cluster Randomized Trials
- Observational Methods
- PROMIS Measures
- Considering having mini-courses that go more in-depth on certain topics Possible credit for student
- PhD NRSA Proposal Support
- Student works with one Biostatistics Core member on the proposal
- The Student, Adviser, and Biostatistician reach agreed upon aims, research design, and analysis plan
- Help with power analyses, writing of the analysis section
- Need to begin working together at least 45 days prior to the submission date
- PhD Dissertation
- Goal is to have students participate in the data management training and working group so they can do their own data management under guidance
- If analyses are complex, it is recommended a Biostatistics Core member is on the committee
- If no biostatistician on the PhD committee, Biostatistics Core will provide basic consultation
- DNP Students The DNP program has statistical support integrated into the course of study. DNP students should direct requests for statistical support to the faculty for 817 and/or 818 and their DNP advisors
- Train project staff in data management, data cleaning, and data integrity (TBD)
- Hold monthly or bimonthly working group of project staff to discuss issues in recruitment, retention, and data management (TBD)
- Develop a pool of trained and mentored statistical analysts that can be written into grants (NP)
- 3-4 students who have demonstrated experience with data management and data analysis
- After completing a test project, students are assigned to a project and mentored by a Biostatistician
- Students and Biostatistics Core meet together to discuss ongoing projects
- Students may be able to help with analyses of manuscripts and presentations when there is no funding available
- Could satisfy a Research Residency
| Date | Workshop Title | Speaker/s |
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| February 15, 2024 | Time to Event Analyses Passcode: ZTL2.U?J | |
| November 16, 2023 | Implementation Research Designs Passcode: [email protected] | |
| September 27, 2023 | Biostatistics Lunch Seminar w/Nancy Perrin Passcode: T@4?9K^p | |
| October 3, 2023 | Pilot and Preliminary Studies Passcode: K&$0F0!& | |
| September 27, 2023 | Multilevel Modeling, Analyzing Clustered Data Passcode: T@4?9K^p | |
February 17, 2022 | Biostats Workshop | |
December 9, 2021 | ||
October 19, 2021 | ||
July 17, 2020 |
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July 10, 2020 |
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November 21, 2019 | ||
October 18, 2019 | Young-Joo Lee, Dr. Elaine Stashinko, and Dr. Yvonne Commodore Mensah | |
September 12, 2019 | ||
May 16, 2019 | Drs. Yvonne Commodore Mensah, Nancy Perrin and Laura Samuel | |
April 25, 2019 | ||
March 28, 2019 | ||
February 21 & 22, 2019 | Data Analysis Retreat |
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January 29, 2019 | ||
December 6, 2018 | ||
November 15, 2018 | ||
November 1 & 2, 2018 | Data Analysis Retreat |
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October 9, 2018 | ||
September 13, 2018 | ||
June 14 & 15, 2018 | Data Analysis Workshop |
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May 3, 2018 | ||
April 19, 2018 | ||
March 26, 2018 | Statistical Methods for Analysis of Data Collected Using Pretest-Posttest Designs | |
February 13, 2018 | Design and Analysis Approaches for Developing and Validating Measurement Tools | |
November 15, 2017 | ||
October 23, 2017 | ||
September 14, 2017 | ||
August 1, 2017 | ||
July 13, 2017 | ||
May 18, 2017 | ||
April 20, 2017 | ||
March 29, 2017 | Handling Confounding: Propensity Scores, Instrumental Variables, Disease Risk Scores | |
January 4, 2017 | Design Analysis Approaches for Development and Validating Measurement Tools | |
November 10, 2016 | ||
October 3, 2016 | ||
September 15, 2016 | ||
September 13, 2016 | Research Demonstration: The Impact of Workplace Policies on Employee Health and Wellbeing | |
September 12, 2016 | NRSA Support Workshops | |
April 19, 2016 | ||
February 25, 2016 | ||
December 15, 2015 | ||
November 2, 2015 | Design and Analysis Approaches for Developing and Validating Measurement Tools | |
September 29, 2015 |