# Statistical and Data Services (SDS) Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE · 2020 · $261,897

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: Statistical and Data Services (SDS) Core
The Statistical and Data Services (SDS) core will serve as the primary source of biostatistical consulting,
analysis, methodological training, and database management support for the proposed 2016-2020 National
Alcohol Center. Continuing the SDS core from the 2011-2015 National Alcohol Center, an organized system
for consolidating biostatistical and database management services is proposed which will draw resources from
a formal Alcohol Research Group (ARG) department structure designed for handling requests for biostatistical
support from within the Center as well as from other ARG research projects. The current Statistical Services
Department within ARG has 3 biostatistical support personnel with varying levels and areas of expertise and
includes the addition of a new Ph.D.-level biostatistician with advanced methodological training and several
years of experience working and publishing with ARG Center scientists. For this Center application, the SDS
core has brought on as consultants some of the leaders in several areas of statistical analysis including the
analysis of spatial data, latent variable methods, data from repeated cross-sectional panel surveys, analysis of
clustered data including multilevel modeling, and the analysis of statistical mediation. Through the efficient
consolidation of biostatistical and data management resources, the SDS core proposes to support the Center's
research goals in the following three ways. First, the biostatistical staff in the SDS core will provide cutting
edge biostatistical and analysis support services to each of the Center's research projects and cores. This
support will be provided throughout the entire research process including hypothesis generation, survey design
and monitoring of sampling progress, database development, analysis formulation and implementation, and
research manuscript preparation as well as for Center-related grant development. Second, a continuing
biostatistical methodology training aim is proposed to further the goal of increasing the methodological
sophistication of Center researchers through the development and implementation of a series of statistical
methods courses aimed at providing in-depth training for the motivation, theory, implementation, and inferential
interpretation of a wide range of cutting-edge biostatistical methods currently being applied in the alcohol
research field including analytic methods proposed in research projects in this Center application. As part of
this training, Center researchers will also be trained in the use of several key statistical packages that
implement these state-of-the-art-methods. These courses have already been offered over the 2001-2014
period by ARG biostatistical personnel as part of the aims of the current and previously funded Centers and
have been found to be extremely valuable in raising the overall level of technical functioning of ARG
researchers in their continually evolv...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9843640
- **Project number:** 5P50AA005595-40
- **Recipient organization:** PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
- **Principal Investigator:** Jason C Bond
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $261,897
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9843640

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9843640, Statistical and Data Services (SDS) Core (5P50AA005595-40). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9843640. Licensed CC0.

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