Our biostatistics team can assist you with your research from study design right through to data analysis and publication. We are available for statistics services alone, or as part of a larger collaboration integrated with other SPHERE services.
Contact Our Team
For biostatistics requests, please fill out the Biostatistics Support Request form and a member of our team will contact you.
We offer a wide range of services, such as,
- Grant preparation and protocol development
- Data processing and linkage
- Randomized clinical trial
- Randomization schedules
- Statistical analysis plans (SAPs)
- Data safety monitoring board/committee (DSMB/DSMC) reporting
- Primary analyses
- Statistical monitoring
- Observational studies
- Assistance accessing and analyzing administrative data (CIHI – Canadian Institute for Health Information and IC/ES – Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences etc.)
- Data visualization and description (tables and figures)
- Assistance in manuscript preparation
Our team has experience implementing a wide range of statistical methods, including:
- Regression modelling
- Correlated data analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Joint longitudinal analysis
- Survival analysis
- Power and sample size
- Structural equation models
- Latent class analyses
- Bayesian analyses
- Propensity score matching
- Machine learning
- Regression trees
- Artificial neural networks
- LASSO (Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator), Ridge Regression, Elastic-net
- Meta-analysis
- Methods for missing data
- Multiple imputation
- Weighting methods
- Win-ratio
- Prediction modelling
- Model validation
We are also open to working closely with your team to implement novel robust methods as needed.
Our team strives for the highest level of statistical quality and adheres to best practice guidelines where available.
Specifically, we support the statement from the American Statistical Association on statistical significance and p-values, both in terms of the principles it adopts and the implications for practice contained therein.
