Statistics (Biostatistics) - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Become a biostatistics expert with the PhD in Statistics (Biostatistics) program.

If you have completed a master’s or bachelor’s degree in statistics, actuarial science, mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines, this program will develop your research skills to solve a wide range of problems arising in health, biology, and the environment.

The demand for statisticians is high in both Canada and around the world, and our graduates typically find employment in pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, regional or national centres for health research, academic centres, and public health agencies.

Research areas include, analysis of life history data, causal inference, clustered data, design and analysis of clinical trials, epidemiological methods, event history analysis, generalized linear models, longitudinal data analysis, methods for dealing with incomplete data and measurement error, stochastic processes, statistical computing, and studies of biological systems.