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Abstract:
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At last count, more than 200 four-year colleges and universities in North America had statistical centers providing collaboration to their academic community. Some health care organizations have statistical groups to give expertise to medical researchers. Many of these centers were built on the principle of providing assistance to their community without directly generating their own grant funding. In the current environment, institutional funding is shrinking, extramural support is limited, and administrators are under increased pressure to bring in additional monies to support operations. Without direct grant support, statistical centers are sometimes in the crosshairs of administrative cuts. This roundtable will bring together directors and statisticians working in academic or health care statistical centers to discuss strategies for success and recipes for failure in working with administrators and collaborators to fulfill the mission of its center. Discussion will include whether centers should be funded by extramural monies, metrics on which a center should be evaluated, and justifying a center that was primarily established for mentoring statistical collaborators.
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