The Biostatistics Core at Bloodworks Northwest’s Research Institute provides statistical services to investigators doing both basic and clinical research. These services range from assistance with initial study/experiment design to writing statistical sections of project proposals and manuscripts. The key areas of support provided are:

Study Design / Project Proposal Development

consideration of population of inference and appropriate experimental units within the population, sampling considerations
power/sample size determinations
development of a statistical analysis plan
Data Management

database design, setup and management
data collection: data capture, data QA
report generation
Data Analysis / Summarization

directed data analysis using standard statistical packages
development of statistical analysis algorithms for non-standard analyses
graphical data presentation
Proposal, Report, Manuscript Writing

collaborate with investigators to write statistical sections of project proposals, reports and manuscripts
in-context interpretation of results of statistical analyses