Statistical Research and Training Under the Brain Initiative

The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative aims to produce a sophisticated understanding of the link between brain and behavior and to uncover new ways to treat, prevent and cure brain disorders.1 Success in meeting these multifaceted challenges will require scientific and technological paradigms that incorporate novel statistical methods for data acquisition and analysis. Our purpose here is to substantiate this proposition, and to identify implications for training.