The purpose of the Biostatistics Core is to provide professional expertise in statistics for all VanderbiltUniversity Lung Cancer SPORE projects, investigators and participants. Functions provided by this coreinclude development of experimental designs, data quality control, statistical analysis and interpretation offindings, and collaboration on presentation of results. To achieve these functions, the core director and corebiostatisticians are constantly available to investigators, and are in regular contact with the project and coreleaders.The primary objectives of the Biostatistics Core are:1. To provide study design and review all laboratory, animal and clinical studies including feasibilityassessment, power analysis and sample size estimation.2. To collaborate in projects data analysis, interpretation of results, and the writing of final study reports andmanuscripts.3. To work with Clinical Resources Core and Pathology and Tissue Resource Core in the development ofresearch project database, to maintain data quality control and to ensure timely data capture.4. To develop and evaluate statistical methods for experimental design and data analysis.The Biostatistics Core support is required in all Lung Cancer SPORE studies. Core personnel have workedand will continue to work closely with project leaders for assuring that Core provides state-of-the-artstatistical support.
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