BIOSTATISTICS

Data Management Series- DATA MANAGEMENT IN CLINICAL TRIAL: THUMB RULE

A mature data is the life of research, especially in clinical trials. To maintain the integrity of data is an utmost important task of a clinical trial. It is now the requirement...

Data Management Series: PDC vs EDC

Research studies often involve the collection of a large amount of data. After data collection, data have to be processed and analyzed, with results and summaries for publication....

Data Management: Steps & Process in clinical research

Clinical data management (CDM) is an important phase in clinical research, which leads to having high-quality and reliable data.  It has the main four components i.e. data...

Data Management – An overview

Data Management Series-I Managing data and information is crucial for an enterprise and especially to implement a successful business intelligence project. Information/data is a...

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

A systematic review is a process to answer a research question by collecting and summarizing all pragmatic evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria while...

Case-control Study Design

The case-control study is an analytic epidemiological research design in which the study population consists of two groups i.e. case (subjects who have a particular health problem...

Randomization: Allocation Method

Randomization in clinical trials has been used since 1929 when R.A. Fisher implemented the first randomization scheme i.e. “the flip of a coin” in a tuberculosis trial....

Study Designs in Medical Research

A study design is a planned and systematic effort for the solution of any health problems in medical research. Various types of study designs investigate the research question...

Visual Display of Quantitative Data: Aesthetics

Data graphics are the combinations of data points, lines, numbers, a coordinate system, symbols, words, shading and colours. Graphs are the instruments for reasoning about...

Role of Statistician in Medical Research

Do you need a statistician as part of your research team? If yes! Then how many? One, two or a team? The question is simple however answer needs some information such as a type of...