The Brown University Center for Statistical Sciences (CSS) was founded in 1995 to foster research and statistical education at Brown Medical School and the University at large. Center activity and personnel have grown over the years to the present configuration of over twenty faculty members, staff biostatisticians, graduate student assistants, and administrative and computing support personnel. The Center is located at 121 S. Main Street and has state-of-the-art computing facilities and networking infrastructure.

Our mission is to foster research and statistical education at Brown Medical School and the University at large. Center faculty and staff conduct methodologic research in Biostatistics and interdisciplinary research in a broad range of areas of Medicine and Public Health. The Center is home to the graduate program in Biostatistics and the undergraduate statistics concentration at Brown, and organizes the Brown Statistics Seminar Series.

CSS faculty and staff conduct methodologic research in a number of areas of biostatistics, including statistical methods for the assessment of diagnostic technology, design and analysis of clinical trials, statistical methods for health services and outcomes research, longitudinal data analysis, methodology for the analysis of observational studies, meta-analysis, and statistical methods for psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. The Center also serves as the biostatistics core for both national and local biomedical research projects. Owing to its expertise in the evaluation of diagnostic technology, CSS hosts the Biostatistics Center of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network, a NCI (National Cancer Institute)-funded collaborative group conducting multi-center studies of imaging modalities for cancer screening, diagnosis, and image-guided therapy. In addition to ACRIN, current federally funded collaborative research projects at CSS include the biostatistics cores of International Breast MRI Consortium, the Brown/Lifespan/Tufts Center for AIDS Research,the Brown/Lifespan Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, and projects in health services and outcomes research.