Internship course for Biostatistics graduate students.

Participation in two-week Biopharmaceutical Summer Academy. May be repeated for a maximum of three credits with a change of topic.

Independent study on biostatistics and its applications under the supervision of a faculty instructor.

(Also offered as STAT 5215.) Applied inference for academia, government, and industry: ethical guidelines, observational studies, surveys, clinical trials, designed experiments, data management, aspects of verbal and written communication, case studies.

(Also offered as STAT 5225.) Creation and management of datasets for statistical analysis: software tools and databases, user-defined functions, importing/exporting/manipulation of data, conditional and iterative processing, generation of reports.

(Also offered as STAT 5505.) Exploratory data analysis: stem-and leaf plots, Box-plots, symmetry plots, quantile plots, transformations, discrete and continuous distributions, goodness of fit tests, parametric and non-parametric inference for one sample and two sample problems, robust estimation, Monte Carlo inference, bootstrapping.

(Also offered as STAT 5515.) One way analysis of variance, multiple comparison of means, randomized block designs, Latin and Graeco-Latin square designs, factorial designs, two-level factorial and fractional factorial designs, nested and hierarchical designs, split-plot designs.

(Also offered as STAT 5545.) Introduction to probability theory, transformations and expectations, moment generating function, discrete and continuous distributions, joint and marginal distributions of random vectors, conditional distributions and independence, sums of random variables, order statistics, convergence of a sequence of random variables, the central limit theorem Formerly offered as BIST/STAT 5585.

(Also offered as STAT 5555.) The sufficiency principle, the likelihood principle, the invariance principle, point estimation, methods of evaluating point estimators, hypotheses testing, methods of evaluating tests, interval estimation, methods of evaluating interval estimators. Formerly offered as BIST/STAT 5685.

(Also offered as STAT 5605.) Analysis of variance, regression and correlation, analysis of covariance, general liner models, robust regression procedures, and regression diagnostics.

Statistical analysis of data on a nominal scale: discrete distributions, contingency tables, odds ratios, interval estimates, goodness of fit tests, logistic/probit/complementary log-log regression, Poisson-related regression.

Rates and proportions, sensitivity, specificity, two-way tables, odds ratios, relative risk, ordered and non-ordered classifications, rends, case-control studies, elements of regression including logistic and Poisson, additivity and interaction, combination of studies and meta-analysis.

Basic concepts of clinical trial analysis; controls, randomization, blinding, surrogate endpoints, sample size calculations, sequential monitoring, side-effect evaluation and intention-to-treat analyses. Also, experimental designs including dose response study, multicenter trials, clinical trials for drug development, stratification, and cross-over trials.

Survival models, censoring and truncation, nonparametric estimation of survival functions, comparison of treatment groups, mathematical and graphical methods for assessing goodness of fit, parametric and nonparametric regression models.

The statistical study of health and illness in human and veterinary populations: epidemiological study designs, measures of disease frequency/effect/potential impact, selection and information biases, confounding, stratified analysis.

Statistical methods and software tools for the analysis of biological data: sequencing methods; gene alignment methods; expression analysis; evolutionary models; analysis of proteomics, metabolomics, and methylation data; pathway analysis: gene network analysis.

Statistical theory and methodology for data collected over time in a clustered manner: design of experiments, exploratory data analysis, linear models for continuous data, general linear models for discrete data, marginal and mixed models, treatment of missing data.