STAT 900PhD Research Skills

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Mathematics
Subject: Statistics
Cross-listed: ACTSC 900

STAT 900 as listed in the Fall 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.

This course acts as a capstone on the coursework based part of the PhD program and as a stepping stone to the PhD proposal and to research. It is aimed at developing research skills: critically reading published research, summarizing and synthesizing areas of research, writing and orally presenting summaries of research problems, data sets and theoretical and applied results. The course is designed to be integrative across core areas of the student discipline.

Prerequisites

Enrolled in PhD in Statistics, or PhD in Statistics-Biostatistics

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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Calendar versions

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In 13 terms, Winter 2020 to Winter 2024