Xia Li is a University Statistics Consultant in Statistics Consultancy Platform https://www.latrobe.edu.au/research-infrastructure/research-facilities/statistics-consultancy-platform.

Xia's principal research interests are applied statistics, biostatistics, especially longitudinal data analysis, survival data analysis, latent based model data mining methods and statistical learning methods with expertise in data analysis and statistics modelling. She is skilled in a variety of data analysis and statistics software packages (SAS, R, SPSS, WINBUGS, MPLUS, SQL, AMOS), very proficient in using many different R packages and writing functions, and coping with large data sets in R. As an early career researcher in the area of statistics, Dr Li has published more than one hundred research publications in peer reviewed journals. Xia also collaborates with the researchers from a variety of disciplines at or out of La Trobe University. She also provides statistics supports for the grant applications including NHMRC grants.

The job of a statistician involves all aspects of the study. From study design, implementation, study compliance, data analysis and interpretation, and manuscript preparation. Even during the very early stage of conceptualization, statisticians can make substantial contributions by helping the investigators formulate and refine their scientific questions.