Andrew Desruisseau (Hepatitis C project discussions)
Maria Pia De Pasquele (power calculations, help with analyses)
OTHER
Tom Talbot's Grant Application
Study design for methods to reduce the rate of false positive contaminant blood cultures:
Randomized block design
Analysis plan for interrupted time series design:
Poisson regression with # cathedar days of risk as offset, adjusting for new treatment, time using splines, interaction of time and treatment, and assuming AR(1) correlation structure
CCASANet Grant Application
Investigators: Daniel Masys, Richard d'Aquila, and others
Completed Work:
General description of analyses
Statistical Methods section of grant: sensitivity analyses and incorporating sampling weights into phylogenetic analysis
Grant funded!
Immune recognition of mycobacerial antigens by sarcoidosis PBMC
Investigators: Wonder Drake
Completed Work:
Basic comparisons using Fisher's Exact Test, Chi-square tests, and Kruskal-Wallis
Two abstracts submitted
Paper submitted: "Immune recognition of mycobacterial antigen 85A by sarcoidosis peripheral blood mononuclear cells"
Helping with revision of different paper
General Consulting
Lora Thomas:
Review of journal club article where Frank was wrongly acknowledged
Monthly journal club involvement.
Answering questions for ID faculty/students.
Vikrant Sahasrabuddhe and Stan Vermund
Statistical advice and analysis of Zambia HPV dataset (12/15/05)
Reviewed paper -- waiting to see next manuscript
Dirk Meyer-Olsen
Former post-doc fellow in Spyros Kalams lab
Statistical advice on analysis looking at biomarkers and time until CD4 value halves (12/12/05)