Course summary

Our PhD/MPhil Biostatistics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Biostatistics. Underpinning all our work in collaborative clinical and healthcare research is a vibrant programme of methodological research. Our main research themes within biostatistics investigate design and analysis of both randomised trials and epidemiological studies, including the management and analysis of large e-health datasets and complex statistical modelling of high-dimensional biomarker data and clustered or correlated outcomes. In particular, our research covers:

• Modern statistical approaches to causal inference

• The design and analysis of randomised trials and other clinical experiments (including the evaluation of complex interventions)

• The management and analysis of large ehealth data sets;

• Complex statistical modelling, including the use of Bayesian methods, including applications to high-dimensional biomarker data and clustered or correlated outcomes arising from measurements repeated over time (including repeated events or interventions);

• Interventions being provided to groups of participants rather than individuals;

• Measurement error evaluation and modelling;

• Genetic epidemiology;

• Survival, event-history and frailty models.

• Prediction/prognostic modelling.