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The Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) at the
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was founded by Professor Douglas G. Altman until 2018. He was succeeded by Professor Sallie Lamb until 2019, then by Professor Gary Collins. In 1995 it was based at the
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in
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, it relocated to the annexe of Wolfson College,
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in 2005, and in 2013 moved to the Botnar Research Centre in Headington. The CSM incorporates the
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Medical Statistics Group Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practic ...
(MSG), Oxford Clinical Trial Research Unit statisticians and the UK EQUATOR Centre. It is based in th
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences
in the University of Oxford. CSM collaborates in health care research, conducts applied statistical research and runs training courses/workshops for both health care workers and statisticians. Statisticians within the CSM are involved in many collaborative projects with clinicians in
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and further afield, some working across the medical spectrum and others focusing on cancer. Other statisticians within the CSM work primarily on a programme of methodological research, in particular relating to studies of
diagnosis Diagnosis (: diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in a lot of different academic discipline, disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine " ...
and
prognosis Prognosis ( Greek: πρόγνωσις "fore-knowing, foreseeing"; : prognoses) is a medical term for predicting the likelihood or expected development of a disease, including whether the signs and symptoms will improve or worsen (and how quickly) ...
, and to
systematic review A systematic review is a scholarly synthesis of the evidence on a clearly presented topic using critical methods to identify, define and assess research on the topic. A systematic review extracts and interprets data from published studies on ...
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meta-analysis Meta-analysis is a method of synthesis of quantitative data from multiple independent studies addressing a common research question. An important part of this method involves computing a combined effect size across all of the studies. As such, th ...
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