# Research Design and Analysis Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE · 2020 · $190,670

## Abstract

The Research Design and Analysis Core (RDAC) of the Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Research Center (KIDDRC) plays a central role by providing consultative and collaborative support within the
realms of research design, data collection and management, and state-of-the-art quantitative methods for
clinical and preclinical experimental studies relevant to intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Along
with providing KIDDRC investigators with the best and most current tools for analyzing and interpreting their
data, RDAC serves the critical role of ensuring that KIDDRC research programs maintain the very highest
standards of data reproducibility, rigor, and transparency. Hence, the long-standing mission of the RDAC
comports well with new NIH guidelines regarding data integrity. RDAC ensures that KIDDRC Investigators are
positioned to meet new requirements mandated by the NIH (https://www.nih.gov/research-training/rigor-
reproducibility), and by the top journals in the field. The overall objective of RDAC is to guide KIDDRC
investigators in implementing optimal research design, efficient data collection and management, and state-of-
the-art analytical methods to ensure the highest standards of rigor, transparencyc and reproducibility. To
accomplish this objective, RDAC staff will provide KIDDRC investigators with: tools and information necessary
to ensure that experiments and studies are optimally designed, high-quality data collection and management
services, and state-of-the-art statistical and bioinformatical analytical tools to advance KIDDRC research
programs. Over the last few years, the RDA has evolved into a proactive support unit that is more closely
associated with, or even embedded into KIDDRC research programs. This interactive model serves to educate
KIDDRC investigators on quantitative issues on an individual level throughout the course of their projects, thus
allowing investigators to make dynamic adjustments to projects as necessary, and to help investigators
maintain progress on their research, thus facilitating more timely reports and presentations. The RDAC also
serves a generative function in providing guidance on leveraging new quantitative methods, which often leads
to new ideas and innovation. Given these functions, the RDAC provides extraordinary value to the Center and
has certainly contributed to the fact that, throughout its history, the reputation of the KIDDRC has been
spotless with regard to the integrity of its data and has been a major contributor to IDD interventions that have
proven to be effective, reliable, and repeatable.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10005936
- **Project number:** 5U54HD090216-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE
- **Principal Investigator:** Lesa R Hoffman
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $190,670
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005936

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10005936, Research Design and Analysis Core (5U54HD090216-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10005936. Licensed CC0.

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