CASE: Center for Applied Statistical Expertise

The past twenty years have revolutionized our ability to collect data. Business, industry and government have made the investments needed to understand their activities, to control and to improve their operation. Yet without specialized skills, and without the knowledge to turn data into useful information, much of that investment is wasted.

CASE provides access to statistical expertise in a totally new way.
By harnessing the skills and knowledge of the leading statistics group in Colorado, CASE enables users to improve all areas of information development and utilization:

• problem formulation and model building
• clinical trials and cancer research
• survey design and analysis
• experimental design, analysis and interpretation
• management advice on information utilization
• bioinformatics, micro array analyis and proteomics

Contact CASE to discuss any of these areas of expertise:

Center for Applied Statistical Expertise
Department of Statistics
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
phone: (970) 491-5268
FAX: (970) 491-7895
e-mail: case@stat.colostate.edu

Using CASE

CASE is located within the Department of Statistics on the Colorado State University campus. Your first call will be directed to one of the CASE Project Supervisors:

• Jens Eickhoff,Ph.D., specializing in Biostatistics, cancer research, clinical trials (Email: eickhoff@stat.colostate.edu)
• Ann Hess, Ph.D., specializing in bioinformatics, microarray analysis, proteomics (Email: hess@stat.colostate.edu)
• James zumBrunnen, M.S. - Associate Director of CASE, specializing in survey statistics, biostatistics and statistical software usage (Email: zumbrunnen@stat.colostate.edu)

What is CASE?

The Center for Applied Statistical Expertise enables the skills and expertise of the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University t o be made available for all types of needs locally, in the state of Colorado, and more widely where the internationally known skills of the group are in demand.

The Department of Statistics comprises some 15 statistical experts with Ph.D. qualifications and expertise in many areas including:

• Environmental applications of statistics
• Pharmaceutical applications of statistics
• Industrial statistical projects
• Agricultural and animal science applications
• Statistical use in legal cases
• Statistics in health care
• Sample design
• Survey design and analysis
• Quality management techniques
• Experimental design
• Forecasting and systems modeling

On-site training courses can also be provided in a wide variety of areas.

State-of-the-art computing resources enable the CASE team to create excellent graphic displays, manage and manipulate large data bases, perform complicated statistical analyses, and customize reports and output to our clients' specifications.