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produce graduates who will help address the shortage of
biostatisticians. We expect our graduates to be highly competitive
in three primary settings: academic university-based settings,
industry, and federal agencies that involve research and/or public
health practice.
Specific course requirements are described at the program website
http://biostatistics.phhp.ufl.edu/ms/.
PHC 6050: Statistical Methods for Health Sciences Research
I(3) Appropriate use of data summarization and presentation of
basic statistical methods, including ANOVA, nonparametric methods,
inference on discrete data, inference on survival data, and
regression methods for continuous, binary, and survival data.
Required core course for students in public health management and
policy and social and behavioral science concentrations.
PHC 6053: Regression Methods for the Health and Life
Sciences (3) Prereq: PHC 6052 or equivalent. For graduate
students in fields other than statistics. Introduction to a wide range
of regression methods. Primary topics are multiple linear regression,
logistic regression, and Poisson regression.
PHC 6937: Special Topics in Public Health(1-6; max: 12)
PHC 6946: Public Health Internship (1-9; max: 9) Prereq:
consent of instructor. Fieldwork at approved site. Focus on practical
application of skills in student's concentration area. S/U.
PHC 7056: Analysis of Longitudinal Data (3) Prereq: STA 6326,
STA 6327 (or equivalent), STA 6207, STA 6208 (or equivalent), and
STA 6246 (or equivalent). Likelihood-based and semiparametric
methods for longitudinal data. Methods to deal with missing data in
both settings.
PHC 7066: Large Sample Theory (3) Prereq: STA 6326 and 6327
(or equivalent). Detailed introduction to large sample theory and its
application in univariate and multivariate parametric and
nonparametric estimation.
PHC 7980: Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1; max: 15)
S/U.
STA 5223: Applied Sample Survey Methods (3) Prereq: STA
2023, 4322, 6126, or 6166. Designing and analyzing sample
surveys. Sources of error. Questionnaire design. Simple random,
stratified, systematic, and cluster sampling. Practical application of
concepts.
STA 5325: Fundamentals of Probability(3) Prereq: grade of C or
better in MAC 2313 and STA 3032 or equivalent. Topics in
probability and statistics, particularly discrete and continuous
random variables, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis
testing. Applications to engineering and natural science.
STA 5328: Fundamentals of Statistical Theory (3) Prereq: STA
4321 or equivalent. Direct continuation of STA 4321/STA 5325.
Basic material for distribution theory, sampling distributions,
properties of estimators, hypothesis testing, linear regression
analysis, and analysis of variance. A good knowledge of calculus is