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Services Offered by the BCL

Fees for the Consulting Services

Benefits for Students

Participation of the Epidemiologist

Current Director

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1. Assisting in the design or evaluation of experiments and sampling procedures;

2. Developing new models or new statistical procedures as part of joint research;

3. Assisting in the computation of power and sample size;

4. Advising on the choice of statistical methods and computer packages;

5. Assisting in the interpretation and presentation of statistical results;

6. Writing statistical reports for grant proposals and manuscripts;

7. Data entry and data management;

8. Reviewing articles for major journals; (NEW)

The Biostatistics faculty of 8 members share the requests for services and each faculty has his/her own philosophy on defining their compensations for the time spent on providing consulting services. However to find out more about our fees please contact the BCL director.

The BCL provides opportunities for M.S. and Ph.D. students in the Biostatistics program to acquire hands-on experience in data entry, data management, data cleaning, data summary and some data analysis. In most cases students work under the supervision of the faculty. Students also find problems for research to do their Ph.D. The BCL has provided support, in the form of T.A's, to up to 2 students every semester in the past few years. In addition, faculty who provide the primary consulting services use students to assist them in performing some of the straightforward analyses. This practice provides much needed supplemental income for the students.

In the past, the BCL services have been provided solely by the biostatistics faculty. Presently, however, in the recent past the epidemiology faculty also have brought in funds by providing epidemiological consulting services to the community. Since the BCL resides within the Epi-Bio divisioni, it is natural to include the epidemiology faculty in the BCL workforce. This, in addition to bringing in more funds to the Lab, provides a medium for both the epidemiologists and the biostatisticians to promote inter-disciplinary research in the community.

Requests for consulting services and enquiries should be addressed to Dr. Ramakrishnan. You can also contact Dr. Ramakrishnan by phone at (312) 996 7501.

A news letter will be posted at this location in the near future.

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