Overview
The Biostatistics Analysis Center (BAC) is a service center within the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that provides biostatistical and epidemiological consulting services to the research community. The BAC is staffed by professionally-trained biostatisticians and biostatistical programmers with oversight provided by members of the CCEB Biostatistics and Epidemiology Divisions, with leadership for daily operations provided by dedicated staff-level directors. Specifically, Warren B. Bilker, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, and John T. Farrar, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, are Faculty Co-Directors and Michael Kallan, MS, and Scott Appel, MS are the BAC Co-Directors.
The BAC provides data analysis and management services for research in the areas including but not limited to clinical trials, genomics, large prescription and diagnostic databases, and observational epidemiological studies. These services include:
- Data analysis support for project investigators, including performing extensive analyses of project data and generating statistical summaries, tables and graphs;
- Statistical programming using a variety of commercially certified statistical software packages such as SAS, R, and Stata;
- Statistical data management support of analytic activities at any stage of a research project, specifically the preparation of analysis files for statistical software packages;
- Technical report preparation, including the summarization of results and interpretations of statistical analyses of research data; and
- Support for the design and budget of statistical services.