# UAB NORC Core D - Biostatistics

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $129,216

## Abstract

Project Summary – Biostatistics Core 
The UAB NORC Biostatistics Core (BC) fulfills the need among nutrition and obesity researchers for guidance 
in developing study designs, consultation for statistical analysis, education on statistical methods, and the 
development of new statistical methods to answer the unique questions posed by NORC investigators. The BC 
has emerged as a leader in statistics and research rigor, both within and beyond UAB, and provides NORC 
members with new approaches to enhance experimental design, analysis, and reporting. The BC coordinates 
statistical activities in the NORC, including interfacing with research cores on the UAB campus and 
participating in teaching and training activities of NORC members. The BC provides our investigators and the 
scientific community at large with the expertise to ensure that compliance with NIH policies in grant and 
manuscript submissions related to study design, data handling, and analysis are followed. Our sustained 
working relationships with investigators across UAB and more broadly provide timely access for planning, 
conducting, and analyzing obesity and nutrition research. The BC has a broad expertise for users including 
survival models, meta-research methods, design and analysis of typical and atypical clinical trials, cluster 
analysis, typical and advanced causal inference analysis of epidemiologic data, and methods in measurement 
error. The BC, in collaboration with the NORC Enrichment Program, is internationally recognized for teaching 
and sharing resources through NIH-funded short courses, seminars, and tutorials. The need for and utility of 
the BC is exemplified by the productivity over our last funding cycle, during which the BC supported 47 projects 
(81% which were federally funded), 33 NORC members, and 21 affiliated or mentored members. In doing so, 
we contributed to the publication of 144 papers, including contributions to statistical methods in nutrition and 
obesity research. The aims of the BC for the next funding cycle are to continue fostering excellence in study 
design and analysis for grant applications and publications, particularly in ways that promote the utmost 
integrity and rigor in statistical analysis and reporting. We will also continue our activities in teaching about 
statistical methods, as well as further developing new methods for NORC investigators.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932969
- **Project number:** 5P30DK056336-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** Tapan S Mehta
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $129,216
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-06-01 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932969

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932969, UAB NORC Core D - Biostatistics (5P30DK056336-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932969. Licensed CC0.

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