The Biostatistical Support Unit (BSU) was established as a core facility to provide investigators in the RCMI and other health-related programs, and their graduate and undergraduate students, with modern statistical consulting and technology to support their current and future biomedical research. The BSU is designed to provide all aspects of statistical consulting including: design of experiments, analysis of data, interpretation of results, database design and management, data entry and publication. The overall mission of this core facility is to provide consulting services to all biomedical researchers and students, as well as to foster interdisciplinary biomedical research collaborations among JSU faculty.

Instrumentation/Software

· Three Personal Computers
· Laser Printer
· SAS/STAT: a wide range of statistical applications for data analysis and estimation
· SAS/IML: a multi-level interactive programming language whose elements are matrices
· SAS/FSP: an interactive menu-driven facilities for data entry, retrieval, and editing
· SAS/GRAPH: a device intelligent color graphics
· SAS/GIS: an interactive geographic information System
· SAS/TUTOR: for online training of SAS System users
· SAS/ASSIST: a menu-driven user interface to the SAS System