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 Statistics (Biostatistics) - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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SchoolUniversity of Waterloo - Graduate Studies
LocationWaterloo, ON, Canada
School TypeGraduate School
School SizeFull-time Undergraduate: 20,800
Full-time Graduate: 3,400
DegreeDoctorate
Honours
Co-op
Length48 Month(s)
Entry Grade (%)*78%
Prerequisites
Prerequisites Notes

A master's degree in statistics, actuarial science, or mathematics, completed or expected is required. Note: graduates of other quantitative and mathematically oriented programs are also encouraged to apply; this includes, but is not restricted to, graduates of commerce, economics, engineering, finance, and any of the physical sciences. The department graduate committee will determine the suitability of each student's background for success in this program. Applicants must also have at least an overall 78% average from a Canadian university (or its equivalent).

Cost
International: $22,188

Cost is an approximation for the first year of the program.

Scholarships
Description

Become a biostatistics expert with the PhD in Statistics (Biostatistics) program.

If you have completed a master’s or bachelor’s degree in statistics, actuarial science, mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines, this program will develop your research skills to solve a wide range of problems arising in health, biology, and the environment.

The demand for statisticians is high in both Canada and around the world, and our graduates typically find employment in pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, regional or national centres for health research, academic centres, and public health agencies.

Research areas include, analysis of life history data, causal inference, clustered data, design and analysis of clinical trials, epidemiological methods, event history analysis, generalized linear models, longitudinal data analysis, methods for dealing with incomplete data and measurement error, stochastic processes, statistical computing, and studies of biological systems.

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