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The 2015-2017 picture for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics is a 32-PI network with 36 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Mathematics as the leading field (32% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), Statistics and Probability as the leading subfield (27% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), and Statistical Methods and Inference as the leading topic (11% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Donglin Zeng (13.6 weighted works; Statistical Methods and Inference, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques). The clearest collaboration lines are Donglin Zeng and D. Y. Lin (8 shared works, weight 4.4); Donglin Zeng and Joseph G. Ibrahim (8 shared works, weight 4.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 30.4, around Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, led by Donglin Zeng, Hongtu Zhu, Martin Styner.