Division of Medical Statistics

M.Sc Medical Statistics

Medical Statistics is a fundamental scientific component of health research, deals with application of statistics to medicine and health sciences, including epidemiology, public health, demography and clinical research. Medical Statistics are a sub discipline of statistics. "It is the science of summarizing, collecting, presenting and interpreting data in medical practice and using them to estimate the magnitude of associations and test hypotheses". It has a central role in medical investigations.

The course is designed to cover modern statistical theory and methods providing a good foundation for research in Medical Statistics. The emphasis throughout is on applying and adapting it to real-life circumstances. The course provides opportunity to develop skills for data analysis and the individual project work provides field experience and hands-on training. The course also aim at providing students scope for professional development in understanding and use of statistical software packages including SPSS, R, MATLAB and Excel.