Abstract of Biostatistics Core

 

The Biostatistics Core is providing the data analysis support for all of the projects. The core members participate with the project members in the design of the study, and participate in the routine project meetings. They either do the analysis, or provide the technical support and training to guide the analysis of the project staff. In addition, Dr. Schwartz is a co-investigator on Project 1, and provides epidemiological as well as statistical input into that study. Dr. Schwartz is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Adminstrative Core and will participate in the general co-ordination of the Center. The members of this core interact strongly with the data management staff in the Administrative Core to ensure that appropriate decisions are made in data cleaning, and that the final analytical data sets are prepared in a manner to facilitate analysis.