Biostatistics is one of the best areas to engage in collaborative consulting and research. You have the opportunity to work with colleagues on important issues such as effectiveness of drugs, risk factors of disease, highly infectious diseases and many more areas. In addition to our core applied courses, we offer two courses specifically for those interested in the biostatistics area.

In addition to our core applied courses, we offer two courses specifically for those interested in the biostatistics area.

STAT 645 Applied Biostatistics and Data Analysis

Survey of crucial topics in biostatistics; application of regression in biostatistics;analysis of correlated data; logistic and Poisson regression for binary or count data; survival analysis for censored outcomes; design and analysis of clinical trials; sample size calculation by simulation; bootstrap techniques for assessing statistical significance; data analysis using R.

Prerequisites: STAT 651, 652, and 659, or equivalent or prior approval of instructor.

STAT 646 Statistical Bioinformatics

An overview of relevant biological concepts and technologies of genomic/proteomic applications; methods to handle, visualize, analyze, and interpret genomic/proteomic data; exploratory data analysis for genomic/proteomic data; data preprocessing and normalization; hypotheses testing; classification and prediction techniques for using genomic/proteomic data to predict disease status.

Prerequisites: STAT 604, 651, 652 or equivalent or prior approval of instructor.