Biostatistics Consulting

Enhance your research with Biostatistics support. Our expertise can be utilized for study design to dissemination of results. Involving us early leads to a stronger collaboration and helps ensure your study is statistically sound.

Study Design

We assist you in choosing an appropriate study design to answer your scientific question, creating data collection tools that will be analysis-ready, and developing an analysis plan. During the design process, there are several areas where we can be of use:

• Defining hypotheses for valid conclusions and minimizing false-positive findings
• Defining outcomes and predictors that best answer your hypotheses
• Identifying confounders and precision variables based on your study design and population
• Developing a data analysis plan for each hypothesis that is appropriate based on the design and data to be collected
• Justifying the sample size necessary to detect clinically meaningful differences
• Developing a data, safety, and monitoring plan to ensure the safety of your subjects
• Developing a randomization plan to assign subjects to groups per your study protocol

Data Analysis

After data are collected, we work with you to conduct analyses per an a priori developed analysis plan or assist with the development of an analysis plan to evaluate your primary and secondary hypotheses. Our team has expertise in analysis with data from/for:

• Clinical trials
• Laboratory experiments
• Predictive modeling
• Causal inference
• Confounding adjustment
• Longitudinal data
• Cost studies
• -Omics data with complex statistical analysis
• Microbiome
• Imaging research
• Meta-analysis
• Multi-platform

Database Design

We can help teach you how to design your database, incorporate data dictionaries and best practices for recording variables to make your dataset easy to simplify maintenance and use.

Abstracts, Presentations, and Publications

Our biostatisticians will provide a near-publication-ready report with methods and results. For abstracts, presentations, and publications, we work with you to review or write the statistical methods and results section prior to submission. Please utilize the authorship policies found on our Policies and Guidelines page to acknowledge our biostatistician's significant contributions. 

Project Pricing and Rates:

We provide services at a subsidized rate for Cancer Center members. Project costs are determined during a Scope of Work meeting and then billed after the work is completed.