METHOD FOR CENTRAL STATISTICAL MONITORING OF DATA COLLECTED OVER A PLURALITY OF DISTRIBUTED DATA COLLECTION CENTERS

摘要

A method for central monitoring of a research includes the steps of creating and storing a database consisting of datasets generated during the research, preprocessing the database to remove variables that are unsuitable for analysis, extracting metadata from the database to identify types of the variables, storing the preprocessed datasets and corresponding metadata in a statistical database, executing statistical tests on a data collection center by data collection center basis to detect abnormalities and patterns present in datasets, creating and storing a matrix containing p-values based upon the executed statistical tests, identifying any outlying data collection centers by summarizing the p-values, determining if any of the executed statistical tests are faulty and removing such faulty executed statistical tests from the matrix to create a filtered matrix, and computing an overall p-value score.

主权项

1. A method for central monitoring of data for non-clinical applications utilizing a plurality of distributed data collection centers, the method comprising the steps of:
storing a database in a network, wherein the database includes a matrix containing p-values based upon statistical tests executed at the plurality of distributed data collection centers, and wherein the matrix has an many rows as there are distributed data collection centers and as many columns as there are executed statistical tests; computing an overall p-value score for each distributed data collection center based on the p-values for the respective distributed data collection center; and identifying at least one outlying data collection center based upon the overall p-values.