biostatistics

This call for applications applies to junior faculty-level biostatisticians interested in collaborating with mental health and aging experts in the development of research projects and associated grant proposals. While not targeted directedly to their grantsmanship skills for methodology grants, many of the principles learned in this mentored experience would be helpful there as well.

As AI research continue to accelerate, many Statistics and biostatistics faculty members are eager to explore new more data-intensive research directions. Recently, a new resource for the statistics and biostatistics community was launched: A comprehensive biomedical data resource guide, available at here. This platform serves as a curated collection of links to diverse biomedical datasets, enabl…

The University of Chicago has been awarded $66 million in renewal funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support the NRG Oncology Statistics and Data Management Center (SDMC), which provides expertise in biostatistics, data management, and operational support for national clinical trials.

Measurements of biological systems often report proportions. We introduce a statistical method to recover estimates of absolute counts and confidence intervals using a multivariate normal prior.

Online workshop on biostatistics that focuses on the practical aspects. The “Biostatistics: a user’s perspective” series of workshops started in 2018, and till date (i.e. May 2026), there have been 1147 participants. The primary focus of these workshops is to provide the knowledge required for basic statistical analysis and interpretation of biological data. The amount of mathematics involved is …

Biostatistics and data science play complementary roles in healthcare analytics, each with distinct tools, methods, and applications. Biostatistics emphasizes study design, causal inference, and regulatory compliance through software like SAS, Stata, and R, while data science leverages Python, machine learning, and cloud platforms for predictive modeling and real-time insights. This analysis comp…

Interesting Statistical Lessons in Providing Real World Evidence that the ensoETM Device Protects the Esophagus from Thermal Injury During Radiofrequency Ablation Presented by Babette Brumback, PhD Professor Emerita, Department of Biostatistics University of Florida Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm in the Noether Lounge […]

When do you code your variables as levels in a factor, and when do you enter them as binary variables in a model? As it turns out, it isn’t necessarily a straightforward question to answer, and it as cliche as it sounds, it depends on your research question. Using examples from a research project studying...

Join us for this week’s Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, April 3rd, with David Steinsaltz, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford, who will present “What is Biological Age?”. This talk is in-person, 310 Social Sciences Building.  Event details are here.  See our events calendar for the spring semester schedule.  The latest video […] The post Weekly News, April 1, 2024 appear…