Research Methods & Resources

CORE faculty are members of several professional organizations, including:

• American Statistical Association
• Society for Epidemiologic Research
• American Public Health Association  
• International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
• Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

CORE faculty subscribe to the ASA Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice. We expect all research colleagues to respect these guidelines, and invite them to review the guidelines often.

• Ethical Guidelies for Statistical Practice

CORE faculty maintain the Upstate Medical University site license for the SPSS statistical suite of software. Users are encouraged to consult the SPSS on-line AnswerNet web site for solving technical problems. SPSS Statisticians also publish statistical solutions on their web page and we have found these to be informative and useful.

• Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS)

Some have found this link to an Introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet useful.

The Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures initiative is designed to make statistical routines easily available via the WWW. Visit their web site for the latest in WWW statistics, but note that CORE faculty assume no responsability for this material.

• Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures

Epidemiology "Super Course" maintained on the internet by the University of Pittsburgh.

• Super Course (Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health)

World Health Organization (WHO) Fact Sheet Index concerning the status of
and information about various diseases.

• Who: Fact Sheets

Public Health Databases

• Commonly Used Links for Public Health Research