Certificate Program in Biostatistics

Advisor: Dr. Georgiana Onicescu

Graduate Certificate in Biostatistics is designed for the graduate students in statistics but also for qualifying graduate students that are not statistics majors as well as working professionals who want to enhance their background in health-related data analysis: Physicians, nurses, clinical researchers, health educators and administrators.

Applicants are expected to have completed an introductory course in statistics, and be enrolled as graduate students at WMU.

The program requires 18 credit hours (six courses).

Required Courses

STAT 6030 - Fundamentals of Biostatistics Credits: 3 hours
STAT 6040 - Statistics for Epidemiology Credits: 3 hours
STAT 6050 - Fundamentals of Clinical Trials Credits: 3 hours

Electives

Three elective course are to be selected from:

STAT 6620 - Applied Linear Models Credits: 3 hours
STAT 6640 - Design of Experiments I Credits: 3 hours
STAT 6680 - Categorical Data Analysis Credits: 3 hours
STAT 6800 - SAS Programming Credits: 3 hours
STAT 6810 - Survival Data Analysis Credits: 3 hours

Note:

For graduate students in other programs at WMU, up to nine hours of approved quantitative graduate research courses taken from the student’s own department can substitute courses listed as electives. These courses would count, as appropriate, for their graduate degree.