Graduate Training in Biostatistics

描述（由申请人提供）这是哈佛公共卫生学院环境卫生统计培训计划的延期申请。该计划为生物统计学在环境卫生中的应用的研究事业准备博士生和博士后。该方案将通过生物统计系进行管理，并由同样位于哈佛公共卫生学院的克雷斯格环境卫生中心和流行病学系的教员积极参与。学员将接受基本生物统计模型的高质量指导，如概率、统计推断、计算和数据分析。该计划还将提供与环境应用特别相关的专门主题的培训，如纵向分析、分类数据分析方法、缺失数据技术以及与环境暴露评估相关的统计方法，如测量误差模型。还将通过环境卫生方面的应用课程和称为“统计与环境”的定期系列讨论会提供培训，教员、学生和研究员在会上介绍他们自己的与环境卫生有关的研究。培训的一个重要重点将是有机会与教员就生物统计研究进行合作，因为它适用于环境卫生。所有受训者都将参加哈佛大学的科研诚信项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This is a request for extension of the Training Program in Environmental Health Statistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Program prepares predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows for research careers in the application of biostatistics to environmental health. The Program will be administered through the Department of Biostatistics, with active participation by faculty members from the Kresge Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Epidemiology, also located at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trainees will receive high-quality instruction in basic biostatistical models, such as probability, statistical inference, computing and data analysis. The Program will also provide training in specialized topics of particular relevance for environmental applications, such as longitudinal analysis, methods for the analysis of categorical data, missing data techniques, and statistical methods relevant to environmental exposure assessment, such as measurement error models. Training will also be provided through applied course work in environmental health and a regular seminar series called "Statistics and the Environment", where faculty, students, and fellows present their own environmental health-related research. An important focus of training will be the opportunity to collaborate with faculty members on biostatistical research as it applies to environmental health. All trainees will participate in Harvard's program on scientific integrity in the conduct of research. Since its inception in 1982, this Training Program has emphasized strong links to the environmental sciences. In recent years, Program trainers have placed particular importance on the recruitment of students from underrepresented minority groups. The focus on interdisciplinary training at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as its talented and diverse student body and faculty, makes it ideally suited for a Training Program in environmental statistics.