The Biostatistics CenTeR supports JHU faculty with primary appointments by providing a maximum of 3-5 hours of free support per clinical and translational research project through the ICTR. Consultants can assist with: research study design, design of data collection systems and instruments, data entry and validation, data management and quality assurance, statistical analysis and data interpretation, and professional and scientific report-writing.
Once projects obtain independent funding, services will be provided on a fee-for-service basis. The goal of these consultations is to advise and educate the researcher by enabling him or her to both design and execute well-constructed studies and analyze the study data collected.
TIME FRAME: Please contact the Biostatistics Center as early as possible before your deadlines and with an awareness of the following guidelines:
- Abstracts: We generally need at least one month. Ideally, we hope you will give us two months or more. If it is less than one month before the deadline, we may be able to assist with some simple summary statistics; however we cannot guarantee more complicated analyses, such as multiple variable analyses.
- Grants: We typically need at least three weeks for new grant submissions. If it is a re-submission, we need at least two weeks to improve your score.
- Manuscript Review: We require a minimum of two weeks for manuscript reviews
As the deadline approaches, the likelihood that we can provide helpful statistical support diminishes. On a case by case basis, The Biostatistics Center may decline requests that are too close to the deadline to provide anything useful.
Within two working days of receipt of a request, a consultant will contact you to arrange an initial meeting as soon as possible. To request a consultation with the Biostatistics Center through Connection Request,
click here.
