Statistical Collaboration in the Health Sciences

3 credits · Graduate School

In this course, students are exposed to a variety of challenges that arise in collaborative arrangements. The course’s goal is to sharpen students’ collaborative skills while exposing them to the application of advanced statistical techniques in routine health science applications. The importance of understanding and learning the science underlying collaborations are emphasized. Students are exposed to real collaborative projects, and face real-life challenges such as opaque scientific direction, poor scientific formulation, lack of time, and ill-formulated messy data. Students engage in several projects that involve the use of a wide range of biostatistics methods from design to analysis. Course content may also make use of departmental clinics. This course is open to biostatistics students only; for students in other programs, instructor permission is required to enroll. Prerequisites: BIOS 6351. [3]