Our Research
Biostatistics faculty currently have the following ongoing research projects and publish actively in scholarly journals.
- Collaborative and applied research efforts include:
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- Design and analysis of genomic studies in cancer, mental health, liver diseases
- Design and analysis 80,000 patients in more than 40 Phase 3 clinical trials of the National Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project
- Design and analysis of studies from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, which is a National Institutes of Health-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Design and analysis of studies of health disparities in US Veterans based on large scale administrative databases and electronic health record information
- Design and analysis of studies of the effect of occupational and environmental exposures on health outcomes
- Design and analysis of large spatio-temporal neuro-imaging studies
- Areas of current statistical methodological research by Biostatistics faculty:
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- Missing Data Analysis
- Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve Analysis
- Statistical and Computational Genomics
- Stochastic Modeling
- Statistical Computing
- Survival Analysis
- Time series Analysis