This advanced programme in applied statistics, provided by statisticians from all three Faculties in the University, and the MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, provides a broad grounding in advanced statistical methods, with a focus on applications in research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry. We have close connections with many pharmaceutical companies and medical research organisations. The programme structure also allows mathematicians with some statistical experience to move into this field. Programme structure Modules: Bayesian methods; Biological assay; Clinical trials; Computer-intensive statistical methods; Design and analysis of experiments; Epidemiological methods; Generalised linear models; Measurement errors; Medical statistics seminars; Modelling longitudinal data; Multi-level modelling; Multivariate analysis; Research skills, strategy and design; Statistical computing; Statistical genetics; Survival analysis; Univariate theory and inference.

Careers: AstraZeneca; GlaxoSmithKline; MRC research units; Pfizer; PPD; Quintiles; NHS; Office for National Statistics.