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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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Community-Acquired Pneumonia

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Transplantation / Liver Disease

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Oncology / Surgery

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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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Catalysts for Research Ideas

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Thank you

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