Biostatistics Platform
The Biostatistics Platform is an essential tool in research institutes to ensure the quality of the entire research, design, analysis and dissemination process.
Objective of the platform
The main objective of the platform is to provide statistical support to IBSAL research staff in the planning and analysis of data from research projects, both observational and experimental, as well as doctoral theses. The statistical analysis service is also offered to research staff or entities external to the institute.
This platform is integrated by a group of statisticians with extensive experience in data analysis and experiment designs from different fields: clinical, biological, bioinformatics, psychological, economic, sociological, etc.
Portfolio of services
- Advice on the design of research studies and systematic reviews.
- Consulting
- Statistical analysis of processed data from bioinformatics procedures.
- Meta-analytical data analysis.
- Survey design.
- Validation of measurement instruments (psychometric validation).
- Qualitative data analysis.
- Design of experiments.
- Machine Learning Methods: Supervised and unsupervised models.
- Teaching of general courses on statistics and specific methods.
- Data analysis: data tabulation, descriptive analysis, sample size calculation, inferential analysis, predictive models, multivariate analysis, survival analysis, diagnostic test analysis.