Biostatistics Minor

The Biostatistics Minor is designed for students in non-biostatistics degree programs at the University of Minnesota. Minors are available for both MS and PhD students.

If you have questions about the Biostatistics Minor, please contact Director of Graduate Studies Wei Pan (bstdgs@umn.edu).

All students completing a Biostatistics Minor must have a Biostatistics faculty member on their final exam committee. Biostat faculty eligible can be found on our faculty webpage.

Minor in Biostatistics Course Requirements

NOTE: One course may be taken S/N and all other courses must be taken A/F

MS minor in biostatistics:

Choose two courses from:

• PubH 7420, Clinical Trials, 3 cr. [PubH 6451 or PubH 7406]
• PubH 7450, Survival Analysis, 3 cr [PubH 7406 and STAT 5102]
• PubH 7435, Latent Variable Models, 3 cr [PubH 6451 or PubH 6415]
• PubH 7430, Statistical Methods for Correlated Data, 3 cr [PubH 6451 or PubH 7406 or STAT 5303 and SAS at the level of 6420]
• PubH 7445, Statistics in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 3cr [PubH 6451]
• PubH 7440, Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis, 3 cr [STAT 5101-02 or PubH 7405-06]

PhD minor in Biostatistics, for non-statistics students:

Either these 2 courses:

• PubH 7401, Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference, 4 cr
• PubH 7402, Biostatistical Modeling and Methods, 4 cr [PubH 7401 (Fund. Biostat Inf.)]

Or these 2 courses:

• PubH 7405, Biostatistics: Regression, 4 cr. [STAT 5101 or co-rec STAT 5101]
• PubH 7406, Advanced Regression and Design, 4 cr [PubH 7405 and STAT 5102 or co-rec STAT 5102]

Plus two courses from:

• PubH 7407, Analysis of Categorical Data, 3 cr [PubH 7405, STAT 5102 or co-rec STAT 5102, PubH 7400 (Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference and Biostatistical Modeling and Methods)]
• PubH 7420, Clinical Trials, 3 cr. [PubH 6451 or PubH 7406]
• PubH 7450, Survival Analysis, 3 cr [PubH 7406 and STAT 5102, PubH 7400 (Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference and Biostatistical Modeling and Methods)]
• PubH 7435, Latent Variable Models, 3 cr [PubH 6451 or PubH 6415]
• PubH 7430, Statistical Methods for Correlated Data, 3 cr [PubH 6451 or PubH 7406 or STAT 5303 and SAS at the level of 6420]
• PubH 7445, Statistics in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 3cr [PubH 6451]
• PubH 7440, Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis, 3 cr [STAT 5101-02 or PubH 7405-06]

It is students take the required set of 2 courses (either the 7401/7402 set of 2 or the 7405/7406 set of 2) first, before taking their choice of two courses from the “Plus 2″ list of 8.

For graduate students in Statistics, the PhD minor requirements are as follows:

These two courses:

• PubH 7420, Clinical Trials, 3 cr. [PubH 6451 or PubH 7406]
• PubH 7450, Survival Analysis, 3 cr [PubH 7406 and STAT 5102]

Plus two courses from:

• PubH 8482, Sequential Analysis, 3cr [PubH 7450, 8432, STAT 5102]
• PubH 8442, Bayesian Decision Theory and Data Analysis, 3 cr [PubH 6421, STAT 5101, STAT 5102, STAT 8311]
• PubH 8452, Advanced Longitudinal Data Analysis, 3 cr [Stat 5101, STAT 8311 and SAS or S+ experience]
• PubH 8472, Spatial Biostatistics, 3 cr [STAT 5101, STAT 5102 and recommend Stat 8311, PubH 8442 or PubH 7440]
• PubH 8462, Advanced Survival Analysis, 3cr [PubH 7450, PubH 8432 and STAT 5102]
• PubH 7455, Modern Non-parametrics, 3 cr [PubH 7406, STAT 5102]