Introduction to Biostatistics
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Biostatistics focuses on the development and application of statistical techniques to address problems in health-related fields, including epidemiology, medicine, and public health. Biostatisticians are indispensable team members for any research study. They help formulate the scientific questions to be answered, determine the appropriate sampling techniques, coordinate data collection procedures, conduct statistical analyses to answer the scientific questions, and help write up the final results. Often, to fully address the scientific questions of interest, the biostatistician will develop new statistical methodology. The methodological interests of the current faculty in the division include (incomplete) longitudinal data, causal inference, survival analysis, statistical genetics, and Bayesian inference. Within the University of Florida's Division of Biostatistics, the research problems are as diverse as studying the impact of educational programs on obesity, developing new stem cell therapy to repair brain damage associated with oxygen deprivation at birth, assessing the impact of the environment on human health, testing of new drugs to control asthma, identifying genes related to recovery from traumatic brain injury, determining the mechanism of the effect of exercise on smoking cessation, developing new approaches to assess vaccine efficacy based on validation samples, and assessing interventions to prevent lower back pain industry. |
Michael J. Daniels, ScD
As part of our graduate training, students provide free biostatistical consulting service, providing the full array of data collection and management services as well as the statistical support needed for all studies.' with 'Biostatistics consulting is available. Contact Dr. Mike Daniels (daniels@phhp.ufl.edu) for an appointment. The faculty members in the Division of Biostatistics are active in the broader statistical community at the University of Florida, within the state, nationally and internationally |
