Doctor's degrees in Biostatistics: A program that focuses on the application of descriptive and inferential statistics to biomedical research and clinical, public health, and industrial issues related to human populations. Includes instruction in mathematical statistics, modeling, clinical trials methodology, disease and survival analysis, longitudinal analysis, missing data analysis, spatial analysis, computer tomography, biostatistics consulting, and applications to such topics as genetics, oncology, pharmacokinetics, physiology, neurobiology, and biophysics.
The PhD program in Biostatistics is intended primarily for the graduate student who seeks a career as a professional, academic, or industrial researcher in the biomedical and epidemiologic sciences. The program meets the needs of (1) the health professional who wishes to continue with public health training and achieve a higher and more specialized degree; and (2) the statistician who wishes to specialize in statistical methods for biomedical and...
A central philosophy behind our program is the importance of combining solid training in statistical theory and methods with exposure to important applications in public health, the biological sciences, and medicine. We try to institute this philosophy in all of our courses as well as in the research topics selected for doctoral dissertations.
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