Biostatistics
PhD
In London
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PhD
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London
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Number of academic staff: 7
Number of students: 9
Partner organizations: Biostatistics and the King's Clinical Trials Unit undertake much collaborative and applied statistical research spanning therapeutic trials, experiments and observational studies. Methodologies of current interest include statistical learning applied to imaging, biological and psychological marker data, measurement, stratified medicine and biomarker trials, and robust causal analysis methods for understanding therapeutic mechanisms in trials.
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Our academic statisticians carry out much collaborative and applied statistical research. Recent examples include:
- Predicting language development from early motor skills in at-risk infants who develop autism spectrum disorder;
- Mediation analyses of the PACE trial;
- Prediction of alcohol relapse in mothers;
- Trial of Prophylactic antibiotics after acute stroke for reducing pneumonia in patients with dysphagia;
- Methods for understanding mechanism in trials of parenting programmes;
- Latent Transition Analysis of mood subtypes in Parkinson Disease;
- Methodology for two-stage analysis of structural equation models
Biostatistics