About the Duke Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (B&B) Working Paper Series
Welcome to the Duke Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (B&B) Working Paper Series.
The B&B Department engages in methodological and collaborative research, and directs educational programs, in the areas of biostatistics, computational medicine, statistical genetics, epidemiology, health economics, health services research and computational biology. The Department currently consists of two divisions: Biostatistics and Computational Biology. The discipline of biostatistics constitutes a primary focus of the Department, which serves as the academic home for all faculty biostatisticians in the Medical Center. In addition to being home for several computational biologists housed in B&B, the division of computational biology serves as the academic home for the members of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy whose primary research interests are in the mathematical sciences.
Outside the School of Medicine, statistics and biostatistics are represented at Duke by the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences (ISDS), one of the eight natural science departments in the School of Arts and Sciences. Some ISDS faculty members have secondary appointments in B&B, and vice-versa. Secondary appointments are also held by several faculty members in the Center for Human Genetics whose primary appointments are in the Department of Medicine or in the Department of Community and Family Medicine.
Additional information about the Department may be found at www.biostat.duke.edu.