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MSc in MEDICAL STATISTICS University of Leicester, UK Due to unforseen circumstances, a studentship is available for entry at the start of Oct 2007 worth £12,600 + UK/EU fees (only UK/EU students with 3-year residency are eligble) Based within the Medical School at the University of Leicester, this well established and successful one year full-time or two-three years part-time course is intended mainly for students with a good honours degree of which mathematics/statistics is the main subject, and with a working knowledge of basic probability and statistics. Other applicants with an appropriate mathematical background (for example, including calculus and linear algebra) will be considered. The orientation of the course is applied and vocational; it aims to produce graduates who can immediately work as medical statisticians in pharmaceutical companies, research units and the NHS or continue onto a PhD. While all necessary theory is covered, the emphasis throughout is on applying and adapting it to real-life circumstances. Practical work makes extensive use of standard statistical packages, including SAS, Stata and WinBUGS. All modules are delivered only to the MSc Medical Statistics students. For more details on the course content visit the course web site http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences Queries about the studentship should be addressed to the admissions tutor, Mrs S J Hubbard (e-mail: [log in to unmask]) Department of Health Sciences Adrian Building University of Leicester University Road Leicester, UK LE1 7RH Tel: +44 116 252 5446 Fax: +44 116 252 3272 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Prof Keith Abrams(Course Director)and Stephanie Hubbard (Admissions)