Medical Statistics Unit

This Unit specialises in applied and methodological research in medical statistics, especially in relation to clinical trials and observational epidemiology. The Unit incorporates a Clinical Trials Research Group (concerned with planning, co-ordination, statistical analysis and reporting of clinical trials), and has a special interest in cardiovascular disease, asthma, HIV, alcohol exposure, liver disease, neurology, adult intensive care and perinatal studies. The Unit has established a reputation for being one of the leading centres in Europe for biostatistical methodology with particular interest in the areas described below.

Current research includes:

• design and analysis of clinical trials;
• participants' views of trials;
• cluster randomised trials;
• analysis of clinical trials with unrandomised treatment changes;
• meta-analyses;
• computationally intensive methods;
• analysis with missing data;
• survival analysis;
• Bayesian analysis;
• measurement error methods;
• analysis of longitudinal data.

The School is committed to the improvement of global health through its research and study programmes.