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Biostatistics
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Introduction
The Biostatistics Laboratory, located within the Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health, New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) provides a home for biostatisticians located within NJMS. It provides services to biomedical and laboratory researchers located primarily at the New Jersey Medical School, but also within other UMDNJ schools and generally within the Northern New Jersey area. Current areas of biostatistical expertise include design of experiments, linear models, epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, categorical data analysis, longitudinal methods, survival analysis and other applications of statistics in medicine. Expertise is also available in the area of spatial analysis (GPS, GIS based data). We have expertise in use of statistical software, including SAS and R/Splus.
Faculty and Associate Faculty
- Soyeon Kim ScD, (statistical design and analysis, clinical trials)
- Amy Davidow, PhD (statistical design and analysis, and methods for infectious disease epidemiology).
- Bart Holland, PhD, MPH (statistical design and analysis, clinical trials)
- Marian Passannante, PhD (epidemiology, survey design and administration)
Services offered
- Consultation on hypothesis generation, study design, survey design
- Data analysis
- Research grant development
- Clinical trials protocol development
- Data management
- Public health epidemiology
- Spatial mapping
External collaborations form a portion of the work conducted in the Biostatistics Laboratory. They often follow established collaborative links with other health related enterprises including the many private and public-private enterprises active in pharmaceutical development in Northern New Jersey.
Advisory Board
An advisory board comprised of senior NJMS clinicians active in research, GCRC representatives, Department of Preventive Medicine, NJMS representatives overviews the activities of the Center and helps guide the development of collaborative relationships with health researchers across Northern New Jersey.
Process
Once you submit a request for consultation, we will contact you for additional clarification and a free initial appointment. We will estimate the time required for consultation and availability of personnel. Approximate time requirements will be discussed and approved prior to performing any work. We have found that investigators often unknowingly underestimate the scope of work that needs to be done for a given consultation project due to the data manipulation required to convert data into appropriate format for analysis. You will be alerted if the scope of work exceeds initial estimates before proceeding beyond agreed upon hours. All initiation and completion time frames are subject to availability of staff.
Fee Structure
Level |
Within NJMS |
Outside NJMS* |
Data Analysis |
Grant Develop-ment |
Data Manage-ment |
Data Analysis |
Grant Develop-ment |
Data Manage-ment |
PhD |
$80/hour |
$100/hour |
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$100-175/ hour |
$100-175/ hour |
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Masters |
$60/hour |
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$60/hour |
$85-150/ hour |
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$85-150/ hour |
Student |
$40/hour |
|
$40/hour |
$55-100/ hour |
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$55-100/ hour |
* subject to negotiation
Note: For expedited work fees will be doubled and is subject to availability.
Authorship
Co-authorship of journal articles is generally expected on studies where substantive input on design and/or analysis is provided.
IRB Approval
For studies requiring IRB approval, consultants should be added as study personnel before performing any work requiring IRB oversight.
Contact Us
Contact us well in advance of any grant, abstract, or manuscript submission deadline due to many competing priorities.
To submit a request for services (of any type) click here.
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