Statistical Analysis

Biostatistics Consultation

Expert help on all aspects of data analysis and interpretation of results.

  • Manuscript and grant preparation
  • Statistical aspects of study design
  • Choosing statistical methods
Hourly Recharge, first hour free per project

Computation and Informatics Core Facilities

Find computational assets and expertise for basic, translational, clinical, and population health research. Services include:

  • Experimental design
  • Data generation, extraction and storage
  • Data analysis and interpretation

Library Data Science Initiative

Workshops, programs and expertise/office hours in:

  • Finding, Managing & Sharing Data
  • Statistics, Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • Programming in R, Python and more
  • Data Visualization with Tableau

Research Analysis Environment (RAE)

Formerly known as MyResearch, RAE offers secure hosting for sensitive data with web-based management and collaboration tools including support for study-specific large datasets and AWS resource options.

  • View, manipulate, and save data entirely in a protected environment without storing files on personal computers
  • Free access to research software applications, such as SAS, Stata, SPSS, R, TreeAge, Atlas.ti, MS Office, and Matlab - see full list
  • Collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, facilitate the conduct of multi-site research studies
Free up to 10GB/month for UCSF PIs

Research Software Licenses (RSL)

Offers annual licenses for research software to UCSF faculty and staff.

  • Individual licenses: SAS | SPSS | JMP
  • Academic discount on Stata

Table 1 SAS Macro

Download the macro and run it on your data; it summarizes continuous and categorical variables by subgroups, and generates:

  • A summary table that is useful for a simple analysis/first look at a data set
  • A final demographic descriptive table that may be used in the typical Table 1 of a clinical paper