The Biostatistics Core at Bloodworks Northwest’s Research Institute provides statistical services to investigators doing both basic and clinical research. These services range from assistance with initial study/experiment design to writing statistical sections of project proposals and manuscripts. The key areas of support provided are:
Study Design / Project Proposal Development
- consideration of population of inference and appropriate experimental units within the population, sampling considerations
- power/sample size determinations
- development of a statistical analysis plan
Data Management
- database design, setup and management
- data collection: data capture, data QA
- report generation
Data Analysis / Summarization
- directed data analysis using standard statistical packages
- development of statistical analysis algorithms for non-standard analyses
- graphical data presentation
Proposal, Report, Manuscript Writing
- collaborate with investigators to write statistical sections of project proposals, reports and manuscripts
- in-context interpretation of results of statistical analyses