Tranforming your ideas into data and your data into actionable insights

SERVICES

What We Offer

Clinical Trial Support

Our principal expert has been a study biostatistician for numerous Phase-I and Phase-II brain tumor clinical trials conducted by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from 2002-2011 and by Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) from 2002-2021. Additionally, he has worked with numerous medical device manufacturers. Our services include:

Provide and guarantee Power and Sample Size calculations for all research studies conducted
Provide and evaluate the Statistical Design section of research proposals and protocols
Conduct statistical simulations to verify and describe the operating characteristics of research designs.
Factorial and Cross-over Design support
Interim Analysis and Safety Monitoring
Generate reports for regulatory bodies, including PharmacoVigilance (PV) Committees and Data Safety Monitoring Boards

Data Analysis
and Statistical Modeling

Successful data analysis relies on well-designed data capture and a data-housing system. An additional hour invested in establishing such techniques in the front end can salvage days and weeks of futile analysis time. Therefore, we strive to base our analyses on solid data capture and HIPPA compliant storage for all projects in our care. Your data will be housed in the US at all times. To assure dependable and reproducible results with any given project, Lumina Statistical, LLC offers assistance with and guidance in the following areas:

Provide expertise in statistical methods and data sciences
Help establish data-capture and warehousing systems
Develop Statistical Analysis Plans (SAP)
Generate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) designs and analysis
Conduct protocol-specific and ad-hoc data analyses
Provide publication support

Statistical Training

Lumina Statistical, LLC develops and provides courses on data-quality assessments, data manipulation, data analysis, statistical modeling, and statistical programming. These courses can be customized based on the client's requirements as small-group brief courses or seminars. These courses are presented at conferences as short courses as well. Lumina Statistical, LLC also works with various universities and colleges to offer formal statistical lectures for degree and non-degree students.

Scientific Editing

Lumina Statistical, LLC provides in-depth scientific editing, strategic advice, and guidance on improving English language usage, grammar, and comprehension for academic and scientific dissertations. Our editing services cover college applications, Curriculum Vitae and resumes, manuscripts, novel-related writings, and clinical protocols.

Meet Our Lead Consultant

Dr. Mehmet Kocak

Dr. Mehmet Kocak earned his MSc degree in applied statistics from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in applied statistics from the University of Memphis. He has been a study biostatistician for numerous Phase-I and Phase-II brain tumor clinical trials conducted by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from 2002-2011 and by Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) from 2002-2021. Dr. Kocak also joined the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in 2011 and supported clinical and observational studies conducted by the institute. Since 2021, he has been the professor of Biostatistics in the International School of Medicine at Istanbul Medipol University, in addition to being the chair of the department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and the director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Analysis Unit. His areas of research have been time-course gene expression data analysis, a meta-analysis of p-values, Phase-I/II/III clinical trial design, Survival analysis, and categorical data analysis. He is an expert in the SAS programming language and Statistical Simulations and Graphics.

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