Transcript Biostat_poster - California State University, East Bay

BIOSTATISTICS Professional Science Masters
California State University East Bay
Eric A. Suess, Lynn Eudey, Kelly Fan, and YanYan Zhou
Biostatistics Degree Requirements
New Professional Science Masters in Biostatistics
CSU East Bay
Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
http://www.sci.csueastbay.edu/statistics/biostat/Welcome.html
Description: The Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
offers graduate study leading to the degree Master of
Science in Biostatistics. The program is designed to
serve the needs of students with varying backgrounds in
Statistics, Biological Sciences, Public Health, Computer
Science, Mathematics and other sciences. The program
includes curriculum designed to prepare students to
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The CSU East Bay, Department of Statistics (now
Department of Statistics and Biostatistics) began working
on the curriculum development of a new masters degree in
Biostatistics 7 years ago. With the help of the funding
from the System-wide CSU SLOAN Foundation
grant we have successfully created a new graduate program
that has now been approved as a Professional Science
Masters (PSM) degree in Biostatistics, Fall 2009. The
program has been available for the last two years, and this
year the incoming students are the first to know about the
PSM.
work in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. All
This poster addresses some of the issues dealt with in the
development process of our program. We describe in detail
our new program, and the similarities and differences from
other such programs. We are one of three PSMs in
Biostatistics in the United States.
student must satisfy the departmental requirements
The overall issues of running and supporting such a
program in the current state budget situation is
presented. Suggestions are made about how to continue
the development and success of such a program in the
CSU.
students are expected to master a wide variety of
applied statistical and probabilistic techniques and the
They are expected to be familiar with recent
stated in the following paragraphs.
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The primary substitution for an internship is the
industry/research based project assigned as part of the
Clinical Trials course.
The primary technology tools used in the program are SAS
and R.
All faculty who teach the core Biostatistics courses in the
program have a PhDs in statistics or biostatistics.
Faculty involvement in the curriculum development and
modification has been consistent.
The faculty promote the job search early in the program
through the orientation and via directed email to students.
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professional seminars given on campus and by posting
their resumes online.
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The program is planned to be run on the state-side of the
university, unlike other PSMs that are run through Extended
Education.
SPRING
STAT 6204 Probability Theory STAT 6205 Statistical Theory
(4)
(4)
STAT 6304 Advanced
STAT 6305 Analysis of
Statistical Inference (4)
Variance Models (4)
STAT 6250 Statistical
Programming (4)
STAT 6509 Theory and
Application of Regression (4)
STAT 6401 Advanced
Probability I (4)
BSTA 6651 Categorical Data
(4)
STAT 6502 Mathematical
Statistics II (4)
BSTA 6653 Clinical Trials (4)
STAT 6501 Mathematical
Statistics I (4)
BSTA 6652 Survival Analysis
(4)
with an M.S. in Biostatistics from Cal State East Bay
3. Additional Courses Students with department approval can
will have achieved the following:
select courses in Biostatistics, Biological Sciences, Computer Science,
Mathematics, or Statistics. A partial list of courses is given below:
graphical displays, (b) distributions, hypothesis testing
The program is directed and administered by the Department
Chair.
WINTER
Student Learning Outcomes: Students graduating
skill in (a) descriptive statistics, probability, and
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FALL
literature to learn new techniques and theories
general requirements stated elsewhere in this catalog, a
and confidence intervals, and (c) uncertainty,
likelihood, modeling and error analysis;
2. ability to derive basic theory and communicate to
others results involving (a) descriptive statistics,
probability, and graphical displays, (b) distributions,
hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, (c)
uncertainty, likelihood, modeling and error analysis;
BSTA 6690 Statistical Bioinformatics (4)
BSTA 6841-6849 Selected Topics in Biostatistics (4)
STAT 6310 Advanced Stochastic Processes and Simulation (4)
STAT 6401 Advanced Probability I (4)
STAT 6402 Advanced Probability II (4)
STAT 6515 Advanced Multivariate Analysis (4)
STAT 6550 Bayesian Statistics (4)
STAT 6555 Statistical Time Series Analysis (4)
STAT 6601 Advanced Statistical Computing (4)
STAT 6860-6864 Selected Topics in Graduate Probability and
Statistics (4)
STAT 6898 Co-operative Education (1-4)
STAT 6900 Independent Study (1-4)
MATH 3100 Linear Algebra (4)
MATH 3300 Analysis I (4)
3. ability to formulate problem solutions, produce
appropriate computer code and to decipher standard
computer results covering (a) descriptive statistics,
probability, and graphical displays, (b) distributions,
hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, (c)
uncertainty, likelihood, modeling and error analysis.
The other two Biostatistics PSM program in the US are
Grand Valley State University and Middle Tennessee State
University.
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Both of the other PSMs in Biostatistics have been good
models for the development of our program. Because we
have designed the program to run on the state-side of the
university we do not charge higher fees for the program. We
are still trying to make more and better industry connections
that result in financial support for the program.
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The other program we have used as a model for the
development of our program is the Applied Statistics PSM at
Penn State. This program has been a long standing PSM
program in the US.
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We have done our best to take the best practices from these
other programs in to incorporate them into our program
requirements and to use with our students.
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Student use of LinkedIn and job listing websites. Students
are encouraged to develop a profession online presence on
LinkedIn. This has been very useful to students after
graduation. Students are given list of job listing website and
encourages to look for jobs long before graduation. Many of
our students find employment before graduation.
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Students are encouraged to develop an online student
portfolio of some code from their classes, projects, and any
other materials that might be useful on an interview. Having
such things readily available has been very useful to students
after graduation.
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The continued development and maintaining such a program
requires the interest and the dedication of the faculty
involved. Under the current budget crisis, once the outside
funding finishes the continuation of administrative support
of the program may end. However, the main ideas of the
PSM will remain part of the curriculum.
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Every effort is being made to seek industry support for the
program and recognition from the university administration
of the need to support for the program to proceed into the
future.
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Enrollments have been very good for a new program and we
expect to see further improvement. The changes have also
help the enrollments in our MS in Statistics.
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The use of our Professional Advisory Board is developing
and we have plans to have some outside review of our
Clinical Trials projects starting this year.
M.S. Program in Biostatistics
developments and to be able to use the statistical
throughout their professional careers. In addition to the
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Course Requirements are presented in this Roadmap
theoretical foundations on which these techniques rest.
1. theoretical, interpretive and basic computational
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
Successful completion of the following unit, grade, and course
requirements.
A. Unit and Grade Requirements The M.S. in Biostatistics
program consists of at least 48 quarter units of approved upper
division and graduate work. At least 44 of these units must be
approved graduate (6000 level) courses. All work applied toward the
48 quarter units must be at an average grade of "B" (3.0) or higher.
No graduate-level course may be at a grade below "B-."
B. Course Requirements (48 units) Additional courses referred to
in section # 3 below must be approved in writing in advance by an
advisor.
Second Year
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SIMILARITIES
First Year
ABSTRACT
PROGRAM
Comprehensive Examination
Successful completion of a departmental examination is
required. This written examination will cover the contents of
the courses in the candidate's approved program. Other
material may be included, the general nature of which will be
specified in advance. The examination will generally be
given only in the Fall and Spring quarters, and will cover
both applied and theoretical topics.