About
We provide advice on biostatistical questions, from design to interpretation of statistical analyses.
Expertises and services
Statistical support
We provide statistical support to our researchers, to students during their internships and to external interested parties.
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We aim to foster a research environment in which researchers can easily consult experts.
We have two main modes of service:
- Short advice (up to 4 hours) to support for example grant applications, research design and statistical analyses, for publicly or internally funded research conducted by Radboudumc.
- Project based service, preferably from the research question/design up to publication stages.
Expertises
Our expertise includes the following topics:
- Prediction modeling
- Clinical trial design
- Adaptive and sequential design
- Survival analysis and modeling
- Sample size and power for complex designs
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Statistical analysis of binary data (logistic regression)
- Multivariate methods (discriminant analysis, factor analysis, pattern recognition)
- (Advanced) regression modeling (including nonlinear, splines)
- Statistics in drug development and drug regulation
Questions related to health economics
We work closely with RTC Health economics. See their page for more information on advice on health economic/HTA questions.
see pageImpact
- On annual basis approximately 400 short consultancies on research projects within Radboudumc
- Impact on drug regulatory innovation, with recent publications on subgroup analyses, master protocols, estimands and standards for evaluating biosimilars
- Improved standards for animal experiments (contributing to the 3Rs)
- Full contribution to design and analyses in approximately 100 scientific publications annually
- Key statistical assessor in approximately 60 scientific advices