Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core

跨学科研究方法（英文） 该核心将确保CIRA科学符合最高的方法标准，并鼓励 多学科方法的创新组合和应用。核心将组织在 四个小组，以反映核心专业知识的一般领域和CIRA科学家的方法需求： 定量方法和生物统计学，定性方法和人种学，成本效益和 数学建模与生物测量与分析。每个小组将由一名联合主任领导， 将有工作人员提供方法和分析方面的实际帮助。核心成员共同拥有 在基本的社会和行为研究，结构性干预研究，研究设计的专业知识 结合生物医学和社会行为的方法，研究结合定性和定量 方法和研究结合多层次的分析。 通过在提交赠款申请之前和赠款发放成功之后进行必要的协商， 以及研究者在研究过程中的任何时候发起的咨询，核心将向CIRA提供建议 科学家对这些研究设计以及测量和可靠性，生物统计学，结构 方程模型，多水平模型，抽样，实验室技术，定性数据编码，方法 定性数据收集，收集成本数据的方法，以及测量和分析项目成本。 核心还将提供一系列数据分析方法的援助，扩大和维护一个 测量资源文件，提供集中的数据备份和存储，创建和维护HIV 数据库存档，并为方法培训提供多种机会。此外，核心将 鼓励和促进方法研究。

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHODS (IRM) CORE The IRM Core will ensure that CIRA science meets the highest methodological standards, and encourage innovative combinations and applications of methods from multiple disciplines. The Core will be organized in four teams to reflect the general areas of Core expertise and the methodological needs of CIRA scientists: Quantitative Methods and Biostatistics, Qualitative Methods and Ethnography, Cost Effectiveness and Mathematical Modeling and Biological Measures and Analysis. Each team will be led by a Co-Director, and will have staff to provide hands-on assistance with methods and analysis. Together, Core members have expertise in the design of basic social and behavioral research, structural intervention research, research combining biomedical and social-behavioral methods, research combining qualitative and quantitative methods, and research combining multiple levels of analysis. Through consultations required prior to submission of grant proposals and after successful grant award, as well as investigator initiated consultations at any point in the research process, the Core will advise CIRA scientists on these study designs as well as on issues in measurement and reliability, biostatistics, structural equation modeling, multi-level modeling, sampling, laboratory techniques, qualitative data coding, methods of qualitative data collection, methods of collecting cost data, and measuring and analyzing program costs. The Core also will provide assistance with a range of data analytic methods, expand and maintain a Measurement Resource File, provide centralized data backup and storage, create and maintain an HIV Database Archive, and develop multiple opportunities for methodological training. In addition the Core will encourage and contribute to methodological research.