Biostatistics

Biostatistics publishes papers that develop innovative statistical methods with applications to the understanding of human health and disease, including basic biomedical sciences. Papers should focus on methods and applications. Introduction of original methodology should be grounded in substantive problems; authors also have the opportunity to present extensive analyses of data on the journal's website as supplementary data. Papers submitted for publication in Biostatistics should satisfy at least one of the following criteria: development of new stochastic models or statistical methodology clearly motivated by a substantive problem in health or biomedical sciences; innovative application of statistical methodology to address a substantive problem in health or biomedical sciences; critical review of an area of statistical methodology relevant to health or biomedical science applications, with a focus on practical utility; case studies based on important health or biomedical sciences data.