Program Details

Once we receive your application, we’ll contact you to schedule a short intake meeting. The purpose is to better understand your needs and goals for your project to ensure they are a good fit for the program. If your application is selected, the program will begin in September 2024.

Work begins with a meeting with our core manager and lead statistician. We’ll review and refine your research question, discuss potential data sources and identify meaningful outcomes. We will also collaboratively define the deliverables you can expect from our team. We will provide a written overview of the components and expectations that participants can share with your department chair/division chief if needed.

Our lead statistician works with you to outline a research plan, which includes the project background, rationale and purpose, research questions and hypothesis, dataset characteristics, and specific research questions. We will also discuss the option to publicly pre-register analyses.

Once your research plan is developed, our statistician leads analysis efforts. They’ll communicate with you regularly (approximately bi-weekly) to update you on findings as they unfold.

Incubator Program participants and our team members meet quarterly to share project updates, discuss areas of overlapping interest and give and receive feedback.

As your project nears completion, you’ll have a wrap-up meeting with our faculty and lead statistician to review findings and plan for dissemination and next steps.

Our team will work collaboratively with you to disseminate the findings of your project, depending on the outcomes you have identified. For participants working toward publishing a manuscript, our team may offer support by hosting a writing sprint, writing sections of the manuscript, creating tables and figures, identifying target journals and more.