The mission of the Biostatistics Department is to provide leadership in the application of quantitative sciences in collaborations with clinical, laboratory, and community investigators in the planning, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of research studies.

The Department's expertise includes clinical trials, study design, survival analysis, generalized linear models, longitudinal analysis, survey methodology, and analysis of microarray gene-expression data and other high-dimensional data. Department members can assist investigators in planning and designing scientific studies, developing efficient and effective means of collecting and managing data, and discerning, strengthening, and communicating findings.