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Curriculum Details

Core Requirements (21 credits)
Core Requirements (21 credits)
Code Course Title Credits Prerequisite(s)
BMS512 Principles Of Epidemiology 3 None
BMS542 Public Health Foundations 3 None
BST501 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology 3 None
STA502 Probability Theory 3 None
STA511 Advanced Regression Analysis 3 None
STA512 Statistical Inference 3 STA502
STA571 Advanced Statistical Computing 3 None
Electives — complete 15 credits, or 9 credits plus thesis
Electives — complete 15 credits, or 9 credits plus thesis
Code Course Title Credits Prerequisite(s)
BST631 Real-world Health Care Data Analysis 3 STA512 & BMS542
COS531 Modern Applied Statistical Learning 3 STA502
COS536 Applied Machine Learning 3 DAS541
COS541 Big Data and Data Engineering 3 None
COS643 Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing 3 COS536
DAS522 Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization 3 None
DAS541 Data Mining for Business 3 Approval by instructor
STA501 Intermediate Statistics 3 None
STA515 Statistical Software Programming 3 None
STA521 Design and Analysis of Experiments 3 None
STA541 Survival Analysis 3 STA512
STA561 Statistical Consulting 3 None
STA631 Multivariate Analysis 3 STA512
STA635 Bayesian Statistics 3 STA512
STA671 Linear Models 3 STA511 & STA512
STA701 Generalized Linear Models 3 STA671
STA711 Advanced Topics in Statistical Modeling 3 STA512
STA745 Nonparametric Statistics 3 STA512
BST751 Thesis 6 Dept. approval

Total credits required for graduation: 36. Students must also pass both the Theory and Applied Biostatistics Qualifying Examinations.

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