BIOSTATISTICAL SUPPORT UNIT

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 经验一再表明，统计学家及早参与研究项目的构思和设计总是会使实验更加有力和富有成果。这种参与将对加强研究基础设施以及提高杰克逊州立大学(JSU)的生物医学研究质量非常重要。因此，我们建议建立生物统计支持股(BSU)作为核心设施，为RCMI和其他与健康相关的项目的研究人员及其研究生和本科生提供现代统计咨询和技术，以支持他们当前和未来的生物医学研究。该股旨在提供统计咨询的所有方面，包括：实验设计、数据分析、结果解释、数据库设计和管理、数据录入和出版。还将组织该设施，以确保向环境健康和生物医学项目的调查人员以及联合苏黎世大学其他健康相关研究中心的调查人员提供更好的生物统计服务。因此，这一核心机构的总体使命是为所有生物医学研究人员和学生提供咨询服务，并促进JSU教职员工之间的跨学科生物医学研究合作。拟议中心的具体目标是：1)加强联合州立大学的生物医学研究基础设施；2)向参与生物医学研究的RCMI调查人员、其他教员、研究生和本科生提供统计支持；3)通过在研究的各个方面使用统计方法，促进高质量研究的发展；4)增加非裔美国人和其他少数族裔科学家在生物统计学方面的人数；5)继续为参与学徒计划的研究生和本科生以及暑期高中生提供培训机会；6)加强现有地理信息系统实验室的研究能力，特别是在数据分析和管理领域。预计BSU核心的开发将大大加强生物医学研究基础设施，以及杰克逊州立大学RCMI和其他生物医学项目产生的科学出版物的质量。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Experience has repeatedly shown that early involvement of statisticians in the conceptualization and design of research projects invariably makes the experiments more powerful and fruitful. Such involvement would be very important in strengthening the research infrastructure, as well as enhancing the quality of biomedical research at Jackson State University (JSU). We therefore propose the establishment of the Biostatistical Support Unit (BSU) as a core facility to provide investigators in the RCMI and other health-related programs, and their graduate and undergraduate students, with modern statistical consulting and technology to support their current and future biomedical research. The Unit is designed to provide all aspects of statistical consulting including: design of experiments, analysis of data, interpretation of results, database design and management, data entry and publication. The facility would also be organized to ensure better biostatistics services to investigators in environmental health and biomedical programs as well as investigators in other health related research centers at JSU. Therefore, the overall mission of this core facility is to provide consulting services to all biomedical researchers and students, as well as to foster interdisciplinary biomedical research collaborations among JSU faculty. The specific aims of the proposed core are: 1) to strengthen the biomedical research infrastructure at JSU; 2) to provide statistical support to RCMI investigators, other faculty, graduate and undergraduate students involved in biomedical research; 3) to contribute to the development of high quality research by employing statistical methods in all aspects of the research; 4) to increase the number of African Americans and other minority scientists in biostatistics; 5) to continue to provide training opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students, and summer high school students involved in apprenticeship programs; and 6) to enhance the research capabilities of the existing GIS laboratory, especially in the areas of data analysis and management. It is expected that the development of the BSU core will highly strengthen the biomedical research infrastructure, as well as the quality of scientific publications generated from RCMI and other biomedical programs at Jackson State University.