An essential component of cancer research, the Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR) provides the necessary infrastructure to facilitate collaboration between the investigator and a biostatistician from the planning stage of a project through to its execution, analysis and interpretation and finally to the dissemination stages. The objectives of this resource are:
To collaborate with HICCC investigators in the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation and reporting of their clinical, laboratory and population science studies.
To provide short-term statistical consulting to HICCC members.
To collaborate with HICCC investigators in their research initiatives and grant proposals.
To advise the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee by providing statistical review of the design of studies and their conduct.
To interact with the Biomedical Informatics Shared Resource in the development and maintenance of the clinical research databases and systems.