Fee Structure

The SCRC offers two methods of payment:

• Fee for service
  • Appropriate for short-term consultations
  • Billed on an hourly basis upon completion of work
• Contractual agreements
  • Appropriate for long-term projects
  • Invoiced on a monthly basis

Fee for Service

		USC/Affiliates/ Government		Non-USC Clients
Ph.D. Consultation		$124/hr		$175/hr
Programming/M.S. Consultation		$60/hr		$75/hr
Data Management		$51/hr		$75/hr
Data Entry		$51/hr		$75/hr

Contractual Arrangements

Total cost of service is negotiated on a “percent effort” basis for personnel needed to conduct the project. In addition, a 25% operational outlay will be added to the total cost of service.

Student Consults

The SCRC is available to provide statistical-related guidance to Keck School of Medicine students who are working on theses and dissertations. The student will be triaged and referred to a Biostatistics degree candidate. The maximum time provided for advice at no charge is three hours. The consult is limited to general guidance only. The SCRC can only provide consultation services to students within the Keck School of Medicine.

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For further information, please contact:

Stanley P. Azen, Ph.D., Director
Statistical Consultation & Research Center
Department of Preventive Medicine
1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 222
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9010
Phone (323) 442-1810
Fax (323) 442-2993
E-mail sazen(at)usc.edu

Training

Finally, the SCRC offers individualized consultations on investigator-initiated protocols.

Biostatistics Courses for Medical Researchers

PM 510 Principles of Biostatistics

• Nature, scope, and terminology of biostatistics; appropriate uses and common misuses of health statistics; practice in the application of selected statistical procedures; introduction to statistical software (SPSS, nQuery, EXCEL).

PM511ab Data Analysis

• aL: Major parametric and nonparametric statistical tools used in biomedical research, computer packages including SAS. Includes laboratory.
• bL: Exploratory data analysis, detection of outliers, fitting data with linear/nonlinear regression models, computer packages including S-PLUS and SPSS. Includes laboratory.

PM512 Principles of Epidemiology

• Terminology and uses of epidemiology and demography; sources and uses of population data; types of epidemiologic studies; risk assessment; common sources of bias in population studies; principles of screening.

PM523 Design of Clinical Studies

• Design, conduct and interpretation of results of clinical trials. Emphasis on principles affecting structure, size, duration of a trial, and the impact of ethical and practical considerations.

PM536 Statistical Methods in Human Genetics

• An introductory course in the statistical methods used in the analysis of human genetic data. Topics in basic molecular biology, population genetics, linkage analysis, and association analysis will be covered. Strong emphasis will be placed on methods used in the positional cloning of genes predisposing for complex diseases.

In addition, faculty members of the SCRC are involved in the training of clinical researchers as a component of Clinical Cancer Genetic Fellowship Program (NIH R25-CA-99-095), the Vision Science Core (NIH R01-EY-03040) and the General Clinical Research Center (NIH M01-RP-00043).