Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics is an Open Access (Gold OA), peer reviewed, international online publishing journal, which aims to disseminate the advances of statistical applications, quantitative methods and bio-informatics to solve the problems in clinical and medical research. The Journal enhances essential communication of statistical theories, methodologies and biomedical informatics among clinicians, medical statisticians, healthcare professionals and computational biologists. The scope of the Journal encompasses epidemiology, public health, pharmacy, data mining and data analysis and welcomes research articles, reviews and methodologies covering all aspects of bio-statistics and bio-informatics in medicine.