Fall 2023
Classes begin: August 30
Fall Reading Break: October 6, 10 and 11
Makeup Days:听Thursday, Nov. 30 is the make-up lecture day for Monday classes and will follow a Monday schedule听(see听www.mcgill.ca/importantdates/key-dates)
Classes end: December 5
BIOS 601. Epidemiology: Introduction and Statistical Models.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examples of applications of statistics and probability in epidemiologic research. Source of epidemiologic data (surveys, experimental and non-experimental studies). Elementary data analysis for single and comparative epidemiologic parameters.
- Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. Undergraduate course in mathematical statistics at level of MATH 324.
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BIOS 612. Advanced Generalized Linear Models.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Statistical methods for multinomial outcomes, overdispersion, and continuous and categorical correlated data; approaches to inference (estimating equations, likelihood-based methods, semi-parametric methods); analysis of longitudinal data; theoretical content and applications.
- Prerequisites: BIOS 611 or MATH 533; and MATH 523, or equivalents.
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BIOS 624. Data Analysis and Report Writing.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Common data-analytic problems. Practical approaches to complex data. Graphical and tabular presentation of results. Writing reports for scientific journals, research collaborators, consulting clients.
- Prerequisites: MATH 533 Analysis of Variance and Regression. MATH 523 Generalized Linear Models.
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BIOS 694. Special Topics in Biostatistics 4.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Special topics in biostatistics.
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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This course aims to interconnect the traditional concepts of biostatistics with the emerging methodologies of machine learning. The objective is to foster a deeper understanding of the insights emerging from machine learning and enrich the analytical skills developed from conventional graduate-level Biostatistics courses. The course will introduce students to innovative machine learning algorithms and data analytics techniques that are critical for prediction, classification, and data pattern recognition tasks as well as their challenges and issues. Primarily, we'll focus on the application of these techniques within the realms of biostatistics and epidemiology. By the end of this course, students will be better equipped to navigate health science problems with an enriched statistical toolkit.
BIOS 702. Ph.D. Proposal.
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Credits: 0
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Essential skills for thesis writing and defence, including essential elements of research proposals, methodological development and application, and presentation.
- Note: Required for Ph.D. students
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MATH 533. Regression and Analysis of Variance.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Multivariate normal and chi-squared distributions; quadratic forms. Multiple linear
regression estimators and their properties. General linear hypothesis tests. Prediction and confidence intervals. Asymptotic properties of least squares estimators. Weighted least squares. Variable selection and regularization. Selected advanced topics in regression. Applications to experimental and observational
data.
- Restriction: Not open to have taken or are taking MATH 423.
- Note: An additional project or projects assigned by the instructor that require a more detailed treatment of the major results and concepts covered in MATH 423.
- Prerequisites: MATH 357, MATH 247 or MATH 251.
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MATH 556. Mathematical Statistics 1.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Distribution theory, stochastic models and multivariate transformations. Families of distributions including location-scale families, exponential families, convolution families, exponential dispersion models and hierarchical models. Concentration inequalities. Characteristic functions. Convergence in probability, almost surely, in Lp and in distribution. Laws of large numbers and Central Limit Theorem. Stochastic simulation.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: MATH 323, MATH 356, or equivalent
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Winter 2024
Classes begin: January 4
Winter Reading Break: March 4 to 8
Makeup Days:听Thursday, April 11 is the make-up lecture day for Monday classes and will follow a Monday schedule. (see听www.mcgill.ca/importantdates/key-dates)
Classes end: April 12
BIOS 602. Epidemiology: Regression Models.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Multivariable regression models for proportions, rates and their differences/ratios; Conditional logic regression; Proportional hazards and other parametric/semi-parametric models; unmatched, nested, and self-matched case-control studies; links to Cox's method; Rate ratio estimation when "time-dependent" membership in contrasted categories.
- Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. MATH 556 and BIOS 601, or their equivalents.
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BIOS 702. Ph.D. Proposal.
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Credits: 0
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Essential skills for thesis writing and defence, including essential elements of research proposals, methodological development and application, and presentation.
- Note: Required for Ph.D. students
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MATH 523. Generalized Linear Models.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exponential families, link functions. Inference and parameter estimation for generalized linear models; model selection using analysis of deviance. Residuals. Contingency table analysis, logistic regression, multinomial regression, Poisson regression, log-linear models. Multinomial models. Overdispersion and Quasilikelihood.
Applications to experimental and observational data.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 426
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 423 or MATH 533 or EPIB 697.
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MATH 557. Mathematical Statistics 2.
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Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Sufficiency, minimal and complete sufficiency, ancillarity. Fisher and Kullback-Leibler
information. Elements of decision theory. Theory of estimation and hypothesis testing from the Bayesian and frequentist perspective. Elements of asymptotic statistics including large-sample behaviour of maximum likelihood estimators, likelihood-ratio tests, and chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 556 and either MATH 324, MATH 357 or equivalent
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