Walk-in clinics: CFAR Biostatistics and Computational Biology

By ajz6@dhe.duke.edu
Beginning today, the Duke Center for AIDS Research will hold weekly walk-in clinics on Wednesdays from 12:00 - 12:55 at the SORF Beard conference room (note: this service will not be offered on the last Wednesday of the month). CFAR Core E (Biostatistics and Computational Biology) faculty will be present to provide ad-hoc consults to any CFAR investigator, including:
  • Design of experiments
  • Planning for data management and analysis
  • Help choose appropriate statistical test
  • Statistical interpretation of test results
  • Review of statistical section of poster or manuscript
  • Design of program or scripts for data analysis
  • Help debugging R/Python scripts
  • Planning for management and analysis of “big data”
Department of Medicine faculty who have an interest in HIV/AIDS research but are not already part of CFAR should contact Mary Oris, CFAR administrator. The clinics also provides an avenue for long-term follow-up and support for CFAR investigators who have attended our programming/analysis workshops. In particular, having access to statistical/programming expertise on a regular basis can help overcome difficulties faced by investigators/staff putting workshop training into practice when you run into roadblocks (e.g. programming bug, misunderstanding of basic statistical concept).

Online Q&A forum for statistical/computational issues

The Biostatistics and Computational Biology core also has an initiative to implement online consulting for computational or statistical issues/topics (e.g., power calculation for sample size, selection of matching controls, and reproducible research) that are commonly encountered in AIDS clinical research. This is inspired by the popular StackOverflow website with the BCB core or other members of the CFAR community contributing answers to quantitative questions posed by the Duke CFAR community. Over time, this will provide a searchable resource of solutions to commonly asked statistical or informatics issues in HIV/AIDS research. Visit dukecfar.askbot.com to post your question.  

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