The Statistical Consulting Collaboration Center & You Guy Brock SPHIS / SON Research Summit 11/13/09 11/13/2009 1 Guy Brock, StCC
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The Statistical Consulting Collaboration Center & You
Guy BrockSPHIS / SON Research Summit
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Doug Lorenz, MS Alex Cambon, MS Savi Appana, MS Guy Brock, PhD, Director
StCC Current Members
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Current Goals
To build collaborative relationships with investigators throughout the HSC (and UofL in general) to conduct innovative studies and engage in thorough, sophisticated analysis with groundbreaking results– Will settle for fundable and publishable
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How do we accomplish this?
Key to success – build strong collaborative relationships– You build off our strengths, we build off
yours, and we share ideas
Need grant submissions to support % effort and RIF to make this a reality
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Study Design & Development Analysis & Modeling Dissemination of Results
Our Expertise
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Design studies, protocol development
Frame research questions Develop data collection instruments Compute sample sizes and conduct
power analyses Write statistical analysis plans
Study Design & Development
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Descriptive statistics and simple hypothesis testing
Categorical data analysis Linear, generalized linear, and mixed
effects models Survival analysis Multivariate and longitudinal data Exploratory data analysis (clustering
techniques, tree-based model fitting) Bioinformatics, statistical genetics
Analysis & Modeling
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Scientific reports and Manuscript preparation– Methods, Results, Discussion
Publication quality Tables and Graphs
Dissemination of Results
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How we support ourselves
GRANTS!!– Grant development free of charge, provided
adequate % effort on grant
Fee for service (less attractive)– hourly basis– Initial consultation is free– Walk-in clinic from 10-12 every Friday is free of
charge
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StCC Policies
Co-author inclusion irrespective of support mechanism
Full statement of policies at http://louisville.edu/sphis/bb/stcc
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Examples of Collaborations
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Transplantation / Liver Disease Oncology / Surgery Cancer Genetics
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A Possibility to Get Started
Utilize existing (publicly available) databases– Many grant mechanisms support
secondary data analysis– R15, R21, R03, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Use these to provide prelim results to support other grant submissions
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