Master of Biostatistics (MBiostatistics) - Course List

Information valid for students commencing 2014

Master of Biostatistics #24

(i) Students with an undergraduate degree with majors in mathematics and statistics will be required to take:

PUBH7600 Introduction to Epidemiology, and

STAT7603 Data Management & Statistical Computing *, and

at least #8 units from Part A, and

at least #2 units from Part B and

at least #4 from Part C.

(ii) Students with an undergraduate degree in a health field will be required to take:

PUBH7600 Introduction to Epidemiology*, and

STAT7601 Mathematical Background for Biostatistics*, and

STAT7603 Data Management & Statistical Computing*, and

STAT7614 Probability & Distribution Theory, and

at least #8 units from Part A, and

at least #2 units from Part B, and

at least #4 units from Part C.

*Can be replaced from another course in Part A if this material has been covered previously.

Part A

Course Code Units Course Title
PUBH7600 2 Introduction to Epidemiology
STAT7601 2 Mathematical Background for Biostatistics
STAT7602 2 Health Indicators & Health Surveys
STAT7603 2 Data Management & Statistical Computing
[ STAT7604 2 Principles of Statistical Inference
[ or
[ STAT7301 2 Mathematical Statistics
STAT7605 2 Clinical Biostatistics
STAT7606 2 Design of Randomised Controlled Trials
STAT7607 2 Linear Models
STAT7608 2 Categorical Data & Generalised Linear Models
STAT7609 2 Survival Analysis
STAT7614 2 Probability & Distributional Theory

Part B

at least #2 units from Part B

Course Code Units Course Title
PUBH7115 2 Mortality Analysis
PUBH7616 2 Burden of Disease Methods
STAT7502 2 Advanced Statistics I
STAT7503 2 Advanced Statistics II
STAT7610 2 Longitudinal & Correlated Data
STAT7611 2 Bioinformatics
STAT7612 2 Advanced Clinical Trials
STAT7613 2 Bayesian Statistical Methods

Part C

at least #4 units from Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
PUBH7635 2 Special Topics in Biostatistics
STAT7620 8 Thesis in Biostatistics [1]
STAT7621 8 Thesis in Biostatistics [2]
STAT7622 4 Project in Biostatistics

Coursework sequencing: PUBH7600 and STAT7601, or previous mathematical courses covering calculus and matrix algebra, are pre-requisites for most other courses. Almost all other courses have pre-requisites that means that students need to take these requirements into account when they select courses.

Required courses such as PUBH7600, STAT7601, STAT7603 and STAT7614 are offered every semester. Other courses are offered annually in semester 1 or semester 2, except PUBH7115 and PUBH7616 which are offered in block mode in semester 3.

End notes

  • [1] Code for student in year courses commencing in sem 1. Students must re-enrol in the same code in sem 2.
  • [2] Code for student in year courses commencing in sem 2. Students must re-enrol in the same code in sem 1 the following year.