What services are offered by the BCSC?
The BCSC provides assistance in a wide variety of areas including grant proposal development, research design, design of clinical trials, data collection strategies, power and sample size determination, statistical modeling and analysis, interpretation of results, manuscript preparation, and, to some extent, data management. The Biostatistics faculty members have extensive experience in providing statistical support for NIH, NSF and private foundation grants. Their specializations include clinical trials, nonparametric methods, epidemiology, statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology, regression analysis, time series analysis, graphical methods, and Bayesian methods. Consultation is provided by Biostatistics faculty and staff. Staff consultants are supervised by a faculty member.