Core--Statistics

跨学科烟草使用研究中心（TTURC）描述的研究项目涉及收集、管理、报告和统计分析几个正在进行的烟草相关干预研究产生的数据，包括武汉吸烟和ETS预防试验（WSEPT）和环太平洋综合研究计划（PRIRP），以及洛杉矶县健康调查（LACHS 2000）。统计核心将为这些正在进行的任务提供数据管理和统计支持。核心成员将提供中心调查人员和统计资源之间的接口。统计核心将维护一台快速的多处理器计算机，所有TTURC调查人员都可以直接或通过校园网访问该计算机。该资源为数据提供了一个中央存储库，促进了Center调查人员之间的文件共享，并支持许多常用软件包。除了研究支持外，统计核心还包括教育部分。这包括通过正式和非正式磋商增加中心调查人员对统计问题的理解，扩大统计学家对统计理论在健康问题上的许多应用的认识，并通过提供分配研究生研究问题的机制来加强生物计量学和流行病学的研究生课程，他们可以在监督下工作。统计核心的具体目标如下：1)协助审查TTURC研究人员的研究方案。2)提供中心调查员与统计资源之间的接口。3)为统计人员提供一个与各核心研究人员讨论问题的中心，以促进统计人员与其他研究人员之间的合作。4)通过以下任务为中心研究项目提供统计和计算机支持：5)开展由TTURC研究项目产生的统计问题的方法学研究。

The research projects described in the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) involve the collection management, reporting and statistical analyses of data arising from several on-going tobacco- related intervention studies, including the Wuhan Smoking and ETS Prevention Trial (WSEPT) and the Pacific Rim Integrated Research Program (PRIRP), as well as from the Los Angeles County Health Survey (LACHS 2000). The Statistics Core will provide data management and statistical support for these on-going tasks. Core members will provide an interface between center investigators and statistical resources. The Statistics Core will maintain a fast multi-processor computer that is accessible directly or through the campus network by all TTURC investigators. This resource provides a central repository for data, facilitates file sharing among Center investigators, and supports many commonly used software packages. In addition to research support, the Statistics Core includes an educational component. This involves increasing the understanding of statistical issues among Center investigators through formal and informal consultations, broadening the awareness by statisticians of the many applications of statistical theory to health problems, and enhance graduate programs in biometry and epidemiology by providing a mechanism to assign graduate students to research problems on which they can work under supervision. The Specific Aims of the Statistics Core are the following: 1) To assist in the review of research protocols from TTURC investigators. 2) To provide an interface between Center investigator sand statistical resources. 3) To stimulate collaboration between statisticians and other investigators by providing a focal point for statisticians to discuss issues with investigators from all the Cores. 4) To provide statistical and computer support for Center research projects through the following tasks: 5) To carry out methodological research resulting from statistical issues arising from the research programs of the TTURC.