Biostatistics Core members include Sezgin Ciftci, Levent Dumenci, Yanda Lang, Sarah M. Weinstein, Jingwei Wu, and Recai Yucel.

Members are available for discussion at all stages of research and provide:

1. Analytic expertise and effort on collaborative research;
2. Grant/contract preparation (including, but not limited to, power and sample size estimations, analytic plans to address specific aims and research questions);
3. Data management;
4. Data analysis and participation in publications; and
5. Providing statistical review of scholarly products/activities.  

The expertise of Biostatistics Core faculty includes the following: 

• Observational data analysis
• Randomized clinical trials
• Longitudinal analysis
• Survival analysis
• Experimental data analysis – both group and individually randomized
• Quasi-experimental data analysis – including pragmatic trials
• Weighted/probabilistically sampled data analysis as well as sampling design
• Hierarchical/nested/clustered data analysis
• Semiparametric modeling
• Measurement development and testing
• Latent variable and structural equation modeling
• Mixture models
• Causal inference
• Mediation and moderation modeling
• Innovative research design and analysis
• Incomplete data analysis
• Analysis with measurement error

Funding for collaborative research projects is received by the Center primarily through three mechanisms:

1. Direct support for faculty named on grants or contracts with NIH, other agencies, foundations, and industry who are included as Key Personnel/Co-Investigator;
2. Direct support for faculty and staff providing services funded on start-up funds or department funds; and
3. Fee-for-service billing for under-funded and unfunded internal projects and/or outside agreements.

To request services and have a Biostatistics Core member contact you, please complete our request form.