Biostatistics
The objective of the PhD egree program is to provie stuents with the quantitative skills neee for the evelopment, evaluation an application of novel methos for the analysis of moern biomeical ata. 51 creits beyon the Master’s egree are require
CREDITS
• 9 creits avance biostatistics courses
• 3 creits avance biostatistics course associate with iscipline
• 3 creits epiemiology courses
• 11 creits electives
• 1 creit research integrity
• 24 issertation creits
NON-CREDITS
• Doctoral stuents are require to participate in a monthly Ph.D. Journal Club for four semesters. Stuents are also expecte to atten the seminars presente in the Department of Epiemiology an Biostatistics Seminar Series each semester.
• 2-8 years, after having earne a MS in Biostatistics, Statistics or equivalent, stuents have up to 8 years to complete all requirements an efen their octoral issertation.
Our faculty strive to prouce convincing evience that will lea to improvements in public health, an to evelop new an innovative statistical an epiemiologic methos for proucing this evience. A few areas of current faculty research interests are liste below.
· Bayesian Statistics
· Bioinformatics
· Causal Inference
· Clinical Trials
· Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
· High-Dimensional Data
· Longituinal Data
· Missing Data
· Reuctive Analytics
· Statistical Computing
· Statistical Genetics
· Survival Analysis
博士学位课程的目标是为学生提供必要的定量技能，发展，评估和应用新的方法，分析现代生物医学数据。 硕士学位以上51学分为必修学分。生物统计学高级课程9学分
•3学分与学科相关的高级生物统计学课程
•3学分流行病学课程
•11学分选修课程
•1信用研究诚信
•24个学位论文学分非学位论文学分•博士生必须参加一个为期四个学期的博士期刊俱乐部。 学生亦须于每学期出席流行病学及生物统计学系列讲座。
•2-8年，在生物统计学、统计学或同等学科获得硕士学位后，学生有8年时间完成所有要求并完成博士论文答辩。
