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I've been thinking of choosing research topics for PhD dissertation in Biostatistics. I wish to know some hot research topics in recent years. As far as I know, some hot research topics are:

  1. High-dimensional data analysis;
  2. causal-inference in experiments and observational studies;
  3. propensity score matching;
  4. Bayesian statistics.
  5. Time series;
  6. Model selection;
  7. Survival data analysis;

My questions are:

  1. Are there any good literature reviews that summarize recent research trends in Biostatistics?
  2. What are must-read review papers for these topics?
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    have you checked what topics are being currently published? take, for example, http://arxiv.org/list/q-bio/current – mugen Dec 20 '14 at 16:38
  • If I may, I would add on Bayesian methods for large scale genomics. Huge area of research where I am. – Chris C Dec 20 '14 at 17:21
  • @mugen, Thanks. I did check those topics. My problem is that I cannot find good review/summary papers about those topics. I can find some for high-dimensional research though. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092303/ – SixSigma Dec 20 '14 at 17:54
  • @ChrisC, definitely I agree. – SixSigma Dec 20 '14 at 17:54
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    I suspect this community might find questions 1 & 2 on topic. However, question 3 is not appropriate for an SE site and question 4 is a separate issue (although a related one, I admit). Since your focus seems to be on the first two, I have taken the liberty of deleting the third and fourth in order to stave off the close votes that are accumulating. – whuber Dec 20 '14 at 19:25
  • [Approximate Bayesian computation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_Bayesian_computation) – Livid Dec 20 '14 at 20:32

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