Methods Support from Chuck Cleland at the NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office for Research
March 6, 2019
About Me
- National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI)
Research Highlights
- Co-Investigator on multiple NIH projects
- National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Substantive Interests
- HIV prevention and care
- Health disparities - particularly racial/ethnic disparities and disparities among substance users
- Substance use epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and recovery
- Child maltreatment (on the editorial board of CM and member of APSAC)
- Collaboration with Candice Feiring and other colleagues
Methods Interests
- Longitudinal
- Multilevel or “mixed” models
- Structural equation models
- Meta-analysis
- MOST, SMART, and JITAI designs for intervention development
Software
Reproducible Research
Dynamic reports
GitHub
- Version control and collaborative software development
- I use it mainly as a way to host web pages
- I have some things there which may be of interest
- Adding other things
Things I Want to Learn More About
- Bayesian
- Social networks
- Implementation science
- Causal inference in observational designs and problematic trials
- Marginal structural models
- Propensity score weighting
- Directed acyclic graphs
Approach to Methods Support
- First and foremost, listen
- Want to learn new things - both methods and substantive areas
- Like to get into the weeds and work directly on data as much as I can
- Help with problem framing and presentation of problem, approach, and findings
- Not just a statistician
Ways I Can Help
- Review
- NIH and other grant applications
- Manuscripts
- Analysis you have already done
- Study design
- Fit between Aims and Approach
- Analysis plan
- Sample size calculations and presentation
- Software examples, troubleshooting
- Visualization
- Sometimes direct work on analysis
Usual Schedule
- Monday 8am-4pm at Silver in Faulty Lounge (205)
- Tuesday - Friday: NYU School of Medicine Department of Population Health and CDUHR
- Meeting with me by WebEx on days other than Monday may be possible
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