Facility Details

Service supports consultation and collaboration in areas of biostatistics and epidemiology to Penn vision scientists.  Biostatisticians and data management experts provide advice on study design, and offer services in sample size determinations, data management, data analysis, data interpretation, and data presentation.  They are active participants in the development and writing of grant applications and manuscripts. Consulting personnel are CPOB members. In addition to their methodological and technical expertise, consultants are knowledgeable about ocular conditions under study in Penn vision community, about commonly used measures that are unique to vision research (visual acuity, refractive error, visual field indices, etc) and specialized statistical analysis techniques required for many experimental designs used in vision research (correlated data techniques to handle appropriately data from two eyes of same subject). Majority of projects are patient oriented researchers,however, CPOB Consulting Service also works on data analysis with bench laboratory scientists.