The Office of Biostatistics

Includes producing power calculations, determining sample size, designing studies that minimize the effects of measurement and experimental error, and identifying appropriate methods for data collection, summary and analysis.

Includes database management, generation of analytical files, cohort generation from claims data, statistical analysis, report generation, and assistance in manuscript preparation and revision. 

Includes quantitative research that will produce improved methods and procedures to collect, manage, analyze and interpret biomedical data.  This usually occurs during a long-term collaboration between a UTMB researcher and a member of the Office of Biostatistics.

The OBIOS provides support for the computer package SAS® and GraphPad Prism. Both are statistical software with extensive data management capabilities. The OBIOS also maintains and supports ArcGIS, a mapping and spatial analysis program; and TreeAge, a visual modeling tool for building and analyzing decision trees for cost-effectiveness analyses. 

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Includes REDCap form design for online data collection, survey administration, and clinical trial randomization purposes, and developing project specific systems for data acquisition, scheduling, and modification.

OBIOS houses Merative MarketScan database and other funded population-based databases under various CMS and NCI data user agreements and will provides technical and methodological assistance to access and analyze these datasets via collaboration research or consulting services.

Are available to assist with the conceptualization, formulation, design, use and codification of these data gathering tools.  Pilot testing, training, operational evaluation and analytic support can be obtained on a project specific basis.