Academics : Major Paper
Major Paper
Students will typically be required to write a Major Paper (3 credits) or in some special cases a Thesis (6 credits). In a Major Paper, a student is expected to explain a collection of related methods in some branch of statistics, use several of them to solve a motivated problem, explaining and contrasting the results. In a Thesis a student would be expected to explain a collection of related methods in some branch of statistics, motivate and develop a non-trivial variation on one of them, elucidate its properties and use it to solve a problem of interest, and compare the new method to some established methods.
In the Major Paper option a student would have an adviser and a second reader. Both the adviser and the second reader would have to approve the Paper. At least one of the two advisory roles (supervisor and second reader) must be a qualified statistician or biostatistician approved by the Biostatistics Graduate Committee.
Theses must be prepared according to the rules of the Graduate School.