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NIMHANS
DEPARTMENTS
Department of
Biostatistics
The
Department
was created in the year 1954 with Dr. Ranganathan as statistician. Later, Dr. N. Sundararaj, joined as
faculty member. Presently, the Department has four faculty members and three scientific staff.
Objectives
Objectives of the department are:
- To provide rigorous training in statistical techniques and achieve necessary
expertise in collaborative research and to facilitate students to become skilled
medical behavioral researchers.
- To provide a unique, readily accessible source of expertise with whom
researchers from both within and outside NIMHANS can collaborate in all
phases of their study design, data management, and statistical analysis of
clinical, epidemiological, behavioral and laboratory research data.
- To educate the next generation of biostatisticians through innovative and
relevant curriculum, hands-on experience, and exposure to the latest
developments in methodological research and to develop new theoretical
models and applied statistical methods that can help address problems in both
medical and behavioral sciences.
- In addition to teaching, service to the scientific and administrative agencies and
to the profession as a whole, on the local, national and international levels.
Human Resource Development
The department has Ph.D. program in Biostatistics. Teaching of biostatistical and research methods is
undertaken to M.Phil in Clinical Psychology, Psychiatric Social Work, Biophysics, Neurosciences, M.Sc.
in Psychiatric Nursing, B.Sc. in Nursing, DM Neurology, M.Ch. in Neurosurgery and pre-Ph.D students.
Rsearch
The departmental faculty are engaged in two kinds of research:
- Research in Applied Statistical Methods
- Collaborative research with other departments.
The areas in which research activities are ongoing in statistics are:
- Latent structure analysis
- Incomplete data analysis
- Qualitative data analysis
- Latent class analysis
- Survival analysis
- Meta analysis and
- Artificial neural networks and Statistical genetics.
The faculty have generated grants from ICMR, International Fogarty fund, DBI, DST etc. for their
research work.
The department conducts workshops/refresher courses.
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