M.Sc.
PROGRAM IN STATISTICS
An interdisciplinary program that draws faculty members from five
faculties and schools across the McMaster campus and the Canada
Centre for Inland Waters offers students the opportunity to specialize
in:
- Medical Statistics (biostatistics)
- Applied Statistics
- Statistical Theory
- Applied Probability
Students can earn their M.Sc. degree following one of the following
options:
A. Thesis Option
Students choosing the Thesis Option are required
to complete 6 1-semester graduate courses (consisting of 3 compulsory
and 3 elective courses) and a thesis. Equivalent in work to 2 1-semester
courses, the thesis is written under the supervision of a faculty
member of the program in a topic of mutual interest to student and
supervisor. All master statistics students are required to attend
the weekly Statistics Seminar during the Fall and
Winter terms. The degree requirements are normally completed in
3 academic terms.
B. Coursework Option
The Coursework Option requires completion of 8
1-term graduate courses (consisting of 3 compulsory and 5 elective
courses) and attendance to the Statistics Seminar
during the Fall and Winter terms. The degree requirements are normally
completed in 2 academic terms.
Our teaching faculty is drawn from the departments of:
A variety of elective courses is available to cater to individual
interests. A major area of specialization is health and medical
statistics, with theses supervised by biostatisticians from the
Health Sciences Centre who are faculty members in the program. Through
courses and thesis work students learn about modern methodologies
and do research on current health problems. Students interested
in a broader area of applied or theoretical statistics may obtain
training in one or more of the following areas: environmetrics,
time series analysis, stochastic models in biology, statistical
methods in genetics, economics, nonlinear models, applied statistics,
order statistics, reliability, analysis of censored data, the booststrap
and other resampling methods, nonparametric methods, comparative
inference, and quality control. Our Research
Data Centre, a Statistics Canada
unit at McMaster, holds large real-life data sets from longitudinal
surveys that are suitable for statistical analyses for theses and
other research projects. Students interested in business or industrial
applications may arrange to do their thesis work off-campus. Those
interested in combining statistics with financial mathematics can
take courses offered by the PhiMac
Group at McMaster.
Our graduates have enjoyed a remarkable success rate in finding
jobs and have gone to work for Statistics Canada, Health Canada,
Canadian Institute for Health Information, industry, hospital research
labs, polling companies, Revenue Canada, pharmaceutical companies,
banks, marketing research, among others. Others have gone to pursue
Ph.D. studies and become successful researchers. We offer a Ph.D.
Statistics Specialization within our Ph.D.
Program in Mathematics.
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is housed in the James
Stewart Centre for Mathematics at Hamilton Hall. An award winning
renovation project made this historic building the finest facilities
of any Statistics Program in Canada.
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