CORE--BIOSTATISTICS, COMPUTER, OUTCOME ASSESSMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

核心员工的一项重要职能是进行生物统计 中心的每一名调查人员都可以随时获得咨询--来自 当一个想法出现在脑海中时，通过设计、执行、分析 并报告结果。此咨询以一对一的形式提供- 一次咨询和咨询研究团队以及 参加整个中心集团的月度会议 调查人员，我们对每项正在进行的研究发表评论，是否 或者，调查人员已经看到了私下咨询的必要性。 核心的其他重要任务是确保数据 收集到的高质量的AR，即所使用的统计方法 调查人员是最先进的，统计方法被修改 为了满足每项研究的特殊需要， 这些文献被适当地改编并在所做的研究中使用 由中心调查人员提供。 在过去的5年里--在生物统计学的存在期间 核心单位-调查人员参与了所有7个项目 由中心拨款支持。生物统计学家们合作的原因是 在发表的16篇论文中有联合作者，并已获得承认 在其他许多方面都是明确的。通过这些协作和 咨询生物统计学家已经发表了另外14篇论文 关于普遍关心的创新和方法进步的报告 给统计学家和生物医学研究人员。此外，核心 调查人员目前正在与20多名非政府组织积极合作 MAMDC资助了斯坦福大学和其他大学的研究人员 机构，进行与关节炎相关的调查。

An important function of the Core staff is to make biostatistical consultation readily available to each of the Center investigators - from the time an idea comes to mind, through the design, execution, analysis and reporting of the results. This consultation is available in one-to- one consultation and consultation with research teams as well as upon attendance at the monthly meetings of the whole group of Center investigators where we comment on each of the ongoing studies, whether or not the investigators have seen the need for private consultation. Other important missions of the Core are to ensure that the data collected ar of high quality, that the statistical methods used by the investigators are state of the art, that statistical methods are modified to fit the special needs of each study and that new methods reported in the literature are adapted and used where appropriate in the studies done by Center investigators. Through the past 5 years - during the existence of the Biostatistical Core Unit - the investigators have participated in all 7 of the projects supported by the Center grants. Biostatisticians have collaborated as joint authors in 16 of the published papers and have been acknowledged explicitly in many others. Simulated by these collaborations and consultations the biostatisticians have published an additional 14 papers reporting on innovations and methodological advances of general interest to statisticians and biomedical investigators. Additionally, the Core investigators are now actively collaborating with more than twenty non- MAMDC funded investigators, both at Stanford University and at other institutions, in arthritis related investigations.