Cooperation projects

These are cooperation projects with funding the services of the IMSB.
If you would like advice on research projects without funding, please go to “Advice on research projects and publications”.
Please also read the information on the previous page "Statistical consulting services".

The Institute of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics (IMSB) is committed to good scientific practice. Please note therefore:

"Quick consultations" in the sense of an emergency outpatient clinic - in particular consultations requested by telephone or at short notice by e-mail - are not provided within this framework (exception: the Omics Ambulance).
Well-founded advice is not possible without exact knowledge of the experimental design and the data structure.
The correct documentation and accuracy of the data sets supplied to us is an essential prerequisite for a valid analysis. We therefore do not process inadequately documented or incorrect data sets. For reasons of IT security, we do not accept zip files.

Procedure:

1. Registration

Please register using the online form "IMSB cooperation request".
If you would like advice on research projects without funding, please go to "Advice on research projects and publications".

Note: Please also note the privacy policy.
Our information obligations according to Art. 13 DSGVO can be found here.

Please submit the documents listed below - preferably via the e-mail address imsb-kooperationsanfrage [at] uni-koeln.de - if applicable to your project:

Exposé or outline of the project
For research projects: Test plan, if already available
Blank tables or sketches of desired graphics for publications
For publications, a literature search should already have been carried out and an introduction should be available

2. Contact person

3. Consultation

The cooperation includes biometric aspects of study planning and implementation, e.g.:

Planning (e.g. hypotheses, analysis models, selection of target criteria, time points for the determination of the target criteria, study design optimization)
Sample size calculation
Randomization
Data management (as far as biometrically relevant)
Suitable statistical software
Plausibility checks
Dealing with missing values
Statistical analysis methods
Graphical display options
Interpretation of the results
Statistical method section and review of study protocols and publications
Conclusion of contract

Further information

On our Guidelines and Recommendations page you will find useful links with information on planning, conducting, analyzing and publishing studies. Please inform yourself about the documents relevant to you.

4. Evaluation and data responsibility

Responsibility for the data (formal and content-related correctness of the data, data security, data protection) remains with the person responsible for the project. In particular, we expressly refer to the

In addition to our compilation of guidelines and recommendations, you can find guidelines for reporting different types of studies on the following website:
https://www.equator-network.org

5. Completion of the work

If services are provided as part of the cooperation that lead to scientific publications, it is scientifically correct and collegial behavior to include the IMSB participants in the list of authors or in the acknowledgement of a publication according to the proportion of work.

If the Institute of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics or institute employees are named in a publication, please submit the work to the IMSB before submission.

Affiliation: Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology
Faculty of Medicine • University of Cologne • Cologne, Germany

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of MedicineInstitute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology