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The Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (BMRD) Study Section reviews applications that seek to advance statistical and mathematical techniques and technologies applicable to the design and analysis of data from biomedical, behavioral, and social science research.  Emphasis is on the promotion of quantitative methods to aid in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical and population based research studies.   Specific areas covered by BMRD:

• Research design: development and adaptation of methods for survey sample design; sample size determination; design issues for experimental and observational studies; randomized trial designs; methods to improve study design efficiencies
• Data collection and measurement:  development and adaptation of methods to estimate and improve data precision, reliability, and validity; methods to estimate and adjust for bias, measurement error, confounding, sampling and non-sampling error; psychometric methods
• Data analysis and modeling: development of statistical theory, analytic methods and models, computational tools and algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of data from clinical studies, randomized trials, epidemiological studies, human genetic association studies, environmental studies, and complex surveys; methods to handle data features and anomalies such as correlation, clustering, missing and skewed data; risk prediction and forecasting methods; causal modeling; high dimensional data methods

Study Sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Epidemiology of Cancer [EPIC] 
Cardiovascular and Sleep Epidemiology [CASE] 
Biodata Management and Analysis [BDMA] 
Genomics, Computation Biology and Technology [GCAT] 
Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems [MABS]