Research Design and Analysis Core

Samantha MaWhinney, ScD
Core Director

The overall goal of the CFAR Research Design and Analysis Core is to assist researchers across a wide range of specialties in their goal of a scientifically rigorous approach to understanding and preventing HIV-1 disease.  Assistance will be provided through consulting, training, communication and research collaboration.  We will employ the most appropriate methods combined with graphical summaries to aid interpretation.  We strive to enhance the biostatistical contribution to HIV/AIDS research within the Colorado CFAR through better understanding of HIV/AIDS immunology, virology and laboratory assays.  We will develop new methods and pursue new research agendas in Epidemiology and Community Health to increase the quality and breadth of HIV/AIDS research in Colorado.

The Research Design and Analysis Core will expand the range of Biostatistical, Epidemiological and Community Health services for D-CFAR investigators.  We will offer educational opportunities, training and mentoring to junior faculty; and provide leadership in research design and analysis in concert with a public health perspective to the overall D-CFAR.  Motivated by interdisciplinary work we will develop innovative analytic approaches to identify research gaps and further HIV/AIDS research in Colorado. 

       

Links to Biostatistical Tutorials:
Computerized Data Structures
Crossover
Descriptive Statistics
Diagnostic Tests
Interrater Reliability
Logistic Regression
Linear Regression
Measures of Disease RIsk
Multiple Comparisons
Power & Sample Size
T Tests