Teaching Programme for Cohort 6 of MSc. Biostatistics – 2015/16-2017/18
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Dates |
1st week (Course Lecturer) |
2nd Week (Course Lecturer) |
Session 1 |
7-Dec-15 18-Dec-15 |
STA6102 Prob & Distribution Theory (Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Namangale) |
STA6105 Statistical Inference (Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Kazembe) |
Session 2 |
29-Jan-16 01-Feb-16 12-Feb-16 |
Exams/Assignments submission STA6103 Generalized Linear Models (Dr. J. Simbeye) |
STA6302 Clinical Trials (Prof. S. Manda) |
Session 3 |
25-Mar-16 28-Mar-16 08-Apr-16 |
Exams/Assignments submission STA6100 Data Management, Practical Statistics and Academic writing (G. Kunyenje-MS Access, T. Kaombe-STATA & Acad. wrtng) |
STA6303 Principles of Epidemiology (Prof. A. Muula) |
Session 4 |
20-May-16 23-May-16 03-Jun-16 |
Exams/Assignments submission STA6304 *Modelling Infectious Diseases (Dr. L. Eneya) |
STA6309 *Programme Monitoring & Evaluation (E. Souza) |
Session 5 |
15-Jul-16 18-Jul-16 29-Jul-16 |
Exams/Assignments submission STA6203 Time-to-event data Analysis (Dr. M. Mukaka) |
STA6205 Longitudinal data analysis (Dr. S. White)
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Session 8 |
09-Sep-16 23-Sep-16 6-Jan-17 17-Mar-17 |
Exams/Assignments submission Project topic presentation Presentation of preliminary results Submission of dissertation |
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Session 9 |
16-Jun-17 |
Oral defense of thesis |
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(*)Elective
Note: Students are free to substitute any of the two electives (*) in the calendar with the following elective modules during registration: STA6204-Multivariate data analysis, STA6206-Bayesian data analysis, STA6305-Stochastic Processes, STA6306-Spatial Statistics, STA6307-Statistical quality control, STA6312-Multi-level modelling, STA6314-Advanced survey design methods, STA3615-Measure and Prob. Theory, STA3616-Queueing Theory
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