Just on the accredited courses; the BCA program is accredited by the SSA, but the Newcastle Medical Stats one isn't.

(However there are two Uni of Newcastle Stats Majors which are)

https://statsoc.org.au/Accredited-courses

And just to make things more complicated, older Newcastle Students who did Medical Stats when it was part of the BCA consortium would have the Graduate Statistician qualification.

Hi there, 

FWIW - I've studied within the BCA course - then the Newcastle course, then back to the BCA course as part of the NSW Health BTP (as linked by Kevin).  I'm happy to provide my take on your queries if you send me a message. 

I am curious though as to how you determined those costings - a Masters cost substantially more than $17,000 when I was studying at UoN.

Cheers,
Dan.

Hello everyone!

Wondering what the difference between this newcastle masters vs BCA masters (at any of the accredited unis)

But more importantly this costs 17k ( as opposed to BCA costs 37k)

And also states " You can also apply for accreditation by the Statistical Society of Australia as a Graduate Statistician (GStat)."

I did match each course with an = (the Newcastle course comes first then the USYD course second)

Mathematics of applied statistics= Maths background for biostatstics
Data Wrangling and Visualisation=data management and statistical computing
Foundation of probability theory= prob distribution and theory,
Clinical trial design=design of randomised controlled trials
Statistical inference=principles of SI
Linear regression modelling=Linear models
Categorical data analysis and generalised linear models=categorical data analysis and gen. linear models
Applied Survival Analysis and Lifetime Data Analysis=Survival analysis
Applied Longitudinal Analysis

By doing this only these subjects were not avail for Newcastle: biostatiscs research project, clinical biostatistics, epidemiology for
biostatsicans, health indicators and health surveys, introductory analysis of linked data, longitudinal and correlated data.

In essence would like to know what ppls thoughts are doing the Newcastle Masters-

1) is it as well known, and also accredited by the SSA/same job prospects? 

2)Furthermore are the missing subjects quite important to become a biostatstican?  My thoughts would be the final project would be useful to get referees for jobs in the future? 

3)Would it be an option to do this course then transfer to one of the BCA universities to say do the biostatistics research project

:)