The Public Health Program's Biostatistics Track is a 43-credit hour degree program that prepares MPH students for careers in which they will apply their biostatistics knowledge, skills, and abilities to protect and promote population health. UTMB MPH
graduates in the Biostatistics track are expected to master the following competencies:
- Assess sources of bias, confounding, and random error in published studies.
- Discuss sample size and power calculations in the design or interpretation of studies
- Clean and transform raw data for inclusion in statistical analysis.
- Explain the basic principles and practical importance of probability, random variables, and commonly used statistical probability distributions.
- Analyze data, using appropriate statistical tools, accounting for types of variables and their distributions, as well as multiple testing issues.
- Communicate results of analyses to a scientific audience.