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Academic Plans and Requirements

Statistics

Statistics for Health (co-op only)
Statistics for Health is a restricted-enrolment plan. Admission to the plan is by application to the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. Co-op students must have a cumulative average of at least 60% to be admitted to the plan. Students who are not in co-op are not eligible for the Statistics for Health plan.

In conjunction with the common degree requirements in Table I in “Degree Requirements,” this plan requires at least 24 math courses. These overall requirements must include the Faculty core courses outlined in Table II in “Degree Requirements” and the following courses:

All of
MATH 237 Calculus 3 for Honours Mathematics or MATH 247 Calculus 3 (Advanced Level)
STAT 232 Introduction to Medical Statistics
STAT 330 Mathematical Statistics
STAT 331 Applied Linear Models
STAT 332 Sampling and Experimental Design
STAT 333 Applied Probability
STAT 431 Generalized Linear Models and their Applications
STAT 436 Introduction to the Analysis of Spatial Data in Health Research
STAT 437 Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Health Research
One of
MATH 239 Introduction to Combinatorics or MATH 249 Introduction to Combinatorics (Advanced Level)
AMATH 231 Calculus 4
AMATH 242/CM 271/CS 371 Introduction to Computational Mathematics
AMATH 250 Introduction to Differential Equations
Two additional 300- or 400-level math courses.

All of
AFM 101 Introduction to Financial Accounting
AFM 102 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
CS 330 Management Information Systems
CS 338 Computer Applications to Business: Databases
CS 432 Business Systems Analysis
ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 201 Microeconomic Theory 1
ECON 301 Microeconomic Theory 2
ECON 456 Health Economics
ENGL 119 Communications in Mathematics & Computer Science
GERON/HLTH 245 The Canadian Health Care System
HLTH 101 Introduction to Health 1
HLTH 333 Experimental Methods and Observational Methods in Epidemiology


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