Curated Resources for Research Design and Analysis

This resource provides curated training content for a non-statistical audience: students, residents, fellows, early-stage investigators, or anyone wanting to learn more about research design and analysis. The current topics provide guidance on the fundamentals of study design and the site will expand to cover a broader range of common statistical topics.

How to Navigate

Each topic is introduced into an overview, with curated resources sectioned by modality: videos, websites, readings, and other relevant courses and software if available. Within each section, resources are loosely ordered by relevance and utility. Permanent links are provided where possible, however, we also equipped the websites section with archive links for alternative use if users experience inactive sites. 

Topics

• Designing and Refining a Research Question
• Specific Aims
• Confirmatory versus Exploratory Research
• Outcomes and Endpoints

Coming Soon

Future topics include clinical trial and observational designs; understanding data through visualization and summary statistics; methods for categorical analysis; hypothesis testing theory and implementation; and sample size and power calculations.

About Us

This resource is being developed and maintained by members of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) at the Columbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant Number UL1TR001873. BERD does not take responsibility for any misuse or misinterpretation of the curated content. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. 

To suggest additional topics or resources, alert us of problems with links, or share suggestions for improvement, email irvinginst_berd_edu@cumc.columbia.edu.