Among the important scientific developments of the 20th century is the explosive growth in statistical reasoning and methods for application to studies of human health. Examples include developments in likelihood methods for inference, epidemiologic statistics, clinical trials, survival analysis, and statistical genetics. Substantive problems in public health and biomedical research have fueled the development of statistical methods, which in turn have improved our ability to draw valid inferences from data. The objective of Biostatistics is to advance statistical science and its application to problems of human health and disease, with the ultimate goal of advancing the public's health.
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;there is the opportunity to present extensive analyses of data on the journal's website as supplementary material. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit code supporting their publications. Authors should submit a link to a Github repository and to a specific example of the code on a code archiving service such as Figshare or Zenodo.
A symbol such as: indicates that additional contents in the form of Data or Code may be available in the Supplementary material section for each article.
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.

Co-Editors
Professor Dimitris Rizopoulos
d.rizopoulos@erasmusmc.nl
Department of Biostatistics
Erasmus University Medical Center
PO Box 2040
3000 CA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Professor Sherri Rose
Rose@hcp.med.harvard.edu
Harvard Medical School
Department of Health Care Policy
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
USA
Founding Editors:
Scott L. Zeger
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biostatistics
Peter J. Diggle
Lancaster University
Department of Medicine
Advisory Board:
Mitchell Gail (Chair)
Sir David Cox
Norman Breslow
Sarah Darby
Peter Diggle
Niels Keiding
Geert Molenberghs
Anastasios Tsiatis
Scott Zeger
Associate Editors:
Jonathan Bartlett
AstraZeneca
Jan Beyersmann
Ulm University
Jacob Bien
University of Southern California
Jennifer F. Bobb
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Howard Bondell
NCSU
Paul Buerkner
WWU Münster
Josée Dupuis
Boston University School of Public Health, BUMC
Claus Thorn Ekstrom
University of Copenhagen
Ani Eloyan
Brown University
Tanya Garcia
Texas A&M University System
Jeff Goldsmith
Columbia University
Niel Hens
Hasselt University
Philip Hougaard
Lundbeck
Li Hsu
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Alejandro Jara
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Wesley O. Johnson
UC Irvine
Edward H. Kennedy
Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Kenward
University of London
Joseph Koopmeiners
University of Minnesota
Philippe Lambert
Université de Liège
Emmanuel Lesaffre
KU Leuven
Alex Lewin
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Xiaole (Shirley) Liu
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Wenbin Lu
North Carolina State University
Bani Mallick
Texas A&M
Florian Markowetz
Cancer Research UK
Matthew Nicholson McCall
University of Rochester Medical Center
Elizabeth Ogburn
Johns Hopkins University
Layla Parast
RAND
Cecile Proust-Lima
Inserm
Hein Putter
Leiden University Medical Center
Brian Reich
North Carolina State University
Shaun Seaman
Cambridge University
Ronglai Shen
MSKCC
Jianxin Shi
National Cancer Institute
Sean Lorenzo Simpson
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Julio M Singer
Universidade de São Paulo
Alisa Stephens
Harvard School of Public Health
Donatello Telesca
UCLA FSPH
Abdus S. Wahed
University of Pittsburgh
Andreas Wienke
University Halle
Amy Willis
University of Washington School of Public Health
Yang Xie
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Yi-Hui Zhou
University of North Carolina
Corwin M. Zigler
Harvard School of Public Health