Biostatistics Consortium Improving Quality Of Medical Research

The major activities of statistical services to be performed by BCI are listed below:

• Developing research protocol - objectives, design, sample size, power calculations, sampling, plan of analysis
• Observational studies, clinical trials, experiments
• Field surveys
• Preparation of data collection forms
• Scales of measurement
• Indicators, indexes and scoring systems
• Data collection from primary and secondary sources
• Scrutiny of data for errors, outliers and missing values
• Data exploration for its distribution pattern
• Statistical analysis
• Tabular and graphical presentation
• Writing of statistical results