CORE--Data Management, Statistics, and Modeling

数据管理、统计和社区建模（DSM）核心是哥伦比亚儿童环境健康中心（CCCEH）所有统计和数据管理需求的中心资源。核心与西哈莱姆环境行动联盟（WE_ACT）结成了强大的联盟，汇集了两个团体的互补技术专长，代表社区支持WEACT的环境宣传， 作为传播社区一级环境信息的工具，促进了中心的科学目标。该中心还与哥伦比亚大学国际地球科学信息网中心开展了新的合作，为纽约市开发地理信息系统，并在波兰和中国进行相关研究。DSM核心将通过追求以下具体目标为中心服务。 具体目标1：为所有数据管理需求提供集中资源，包括数据库设计、实施和修改;数据输入和核查;数据检索以进行统计分析和生成报告;以及维护数据安全和保密。 具体目标二：规划、协调和监督所有统计分析，并对研究项目的所有出版物（包括干预措施）进行统计审查。持续提供建议，从而加强中心研究的开展，以符合研究设计，数据质量和统计分析的最高标准。 具体目标3：与我们的WEACT和信息网中心合作，继续获取和更新群组研究地区和纽约市的联邦和地方住房、人口、发展和健康数据，并继续建立地理信息系统基础设施，以便对这些数据进行绘图和空间分析。 具体目标4。与中心核心和项目的研究者协商，进行多层次的统计分析，以检验关于社区水平效应对个体结局影响的特定假设。 具体目标5.与COTAC合作，利用毒物影响多层次建模（具体目标5）得出的结果，编制环境和经济影响说明，并为公共卫生政策提供信息。

The Data Management, Statistics and Community Modeling (DSM) Core is the central resource for all statistical and data management needs of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH). The Core has forged a strong alliance with West Harlem Environmental Action Coalition (WE_ACT) that brings together complementary technical expertise from the two groups, supports WEACT's environmental advocacy on behalf of the community, provides a vehicle for dissemination of community-level environmental information, and advances the Center's scientific goals. The Core has also developed a new collaboration with the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) to develop the GIS for New York City and related studies in Poland and China. The DSM Core will serve the Center by pursuing the following specific aims. Specific Aim 1: to provide the centralized resource for all data management needs, including database design, implementation and modification; data entry and verification; data retrieval for statistical analysis and report generation; and maintenance of data security and confidentiality. Specific Aim 2: to plan, coordinate and oversee all statistical analysis and provide statistical review of all publications for the research projects, including interventions. To advise continually on, and thereby enhance, the conduct of Center research in keeping with the highest standards of research design, data quality and statistical analysis. Specific Aim 3: in collaboration with our WEACT and CIESIN partners, to continue to acquire and update federal and local, housing, demographic, developmental and health data for the cohort study area and New York City, and continue to build the GIS infrastructure for mapping and spatial analysis of these data. Specific Aim 4. In consultation with investigators of center cores and projects, conduct multi-level statistical analyses to test specified hypotheses regarding the impact of community-level effects on individual outcomes. Specific Aim 5. In collaboration with COTAC, use the findings emerging from the multi-level modeling of toxicant effects (specific aim 5) to develop environmental and economic impact statements and inform public health policy.