Divisions
- Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
- Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Health Policy
DIVISION OF BIOSTATISTICS & BIOINFORMATICS
We have expertise in design and analysis of clinical trials, behavioral interventions, cohort studies, and biomarker studies, including such areas as longitudinal models, “big data” and high dimensional analyses, image analysis, and survey statistics
WHAT WE DO
We have expertise in design and analysis of clinical trials, behavioral interventions, cohort studies, and biomarker studies, including such areas as longitudinal models, “big data” and high dimensional analyses, image analysis, and survey statistics
Our goal is to pursue excellence in the following areas:
- Methodological research in biostatistics and bioinformatics, in particular methods responsive to new quantitative and scientific problems arising from advances in medicine, biology and health care systems
- Collaborative clinical, biological, and translational research
- Education in contemporary statistical theory and applications
- Service to the university and local community
News and Announcements
Biostatistics Student Seminar Series
Co-chaired by Tuo Lin and Anubhav Singh Sachan, the Seminar Series is an opportunity for Biostatistics Program graduate students to highlight their current research activities.
Faculty Spotlight
Florin Vaida, PhD cited in study demonstrating that an optical tool in smartphones is effective at assessing blood-oxygen levels.
Postdoctoral Biostatistics Fellowship Open
The fellowship is a 12-month appointment with supervising professor, Steve Edland, PhD.
EDUCATION & TRAINING IN BIOSTATISTICS
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics offers two graduate degrees: a Master of Science and a PhD. Undergraduate students also have the opportunity to specialize in Biostatistics as a Public Health major.
Student Spotlight
02/2022
Biostatistics graduate student Junting Ren has a first-authored paper accepted by Statistics in Medicine, entitled "A Semi-parametric Bayesian model for semi-continuous longitudinal data". Congratulations Junting!
02/2022
Biostatistics graduate student Kristen Hansen has published a paper describing a method to estimate how a mountain glacier goes down a mountain, as a step toward quantifying mountain glacier retreat as indication of climate change.
RESEARCH
Our research interests include clinical trials methods, survival analysis, prognostic modeling, longitudinal data analysis, imaging, statistical genetics, semi-parametric and non-parametric statistics, computational statistics, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and computational biology.
Seminars
04/06/2022
"Biostatistical methods for wearable devices with applications to NHANES and UK Biobank"
03/16/2022
"Robust functional principal components analysis with application to accelerometry data"
EXPLORE
Faculty and students in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics encourage involvement with the American Statistical Association. Visit the This is Statistics webpage for more information on this exciting field!