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From in-depth clinical trial design and analysis to data mining skills that help you make smarter business decisions, our unique programs focus on practical applications and mastery of skills you need to stay ahead in your field.  Whatever your profession and industry, we have specific programs to expand your statistical skill set and meet your business requirements.

PASS (Programs in Advanced Statistical Studies)

• Biostatistics - Epidemiology - get the principles of study design and the statistical skills to analyze observational data on human health.  For health researchers, nurses, physicians, and environmental scientists.
• Biostatistics - Controlled Trials - learn how to design and analyze major studies from instructors intimately familiar with FDA and other regulatory requirements.   For researchers in pharma or device companies, CRO's, and government and non-profit research agencies.
• Business Analytics - become your company's expert on forecasting, customer segmentation, consumer behavior, and risk analysis.  For forecasters, market researchers, risk modelers, and business analysts in general.
• Data Mining - master the secrets of teasing powerful information from large data sets to predict customer behavior, identify likely high value customers,  visualize high dimensional data, and convert text to minable data.  For business analysts who need to know data mining in depth.
• Statistics for Social Science - acquire the statistical skills you need for your current study, and to design, analyze and advise on future research.  Covering statistical modeling, SEM, Rasch measurement and more, this program is for all who conduct research in human behavior.
• Statistics for Environmental Science - learn the statistics needed for ecological research, environmental impact assessment, regulatory compliance and decision-making (including new Bayesian techniques).  For ecologists, biologists, consultants, environmental engineers, government scientists.
• Engineering Statistics - become your company's authority on the statistical methods that have a proven ROI - SPC, reliability analysis, time-to-failure estimation, design of experiments, and more.   For quality engineers who want to gain statistical skills, and statisticians looking to augment their statistical toolbox.
• Using R - there are several widely used powerful statistical computing environments, but only one is free - R.  Become your organization's resident expert in this open-source program.

Each Program provides an appropriate balance of conceptual understanding and practical skills, and will give you the statistical skills and software facility you need in your studies, projects and reports. While open to all, PASS is particularly suitable as part-time study for working professionals.

Structure of PASS

Courses are taught by leading experts with whom you share a private discussion forum for the entire course period. Students participate from all over the world - lessons are opened and closed on a weekly basis, but you may organize your time however you like within each week - there are no set times when you must be online.

There are four main components to each course:

1. Course materials (course text, course files, video and other materials)
2. Discussion with the instructor and other students via daily web forum (asynchronous - you need not be online at any particular time of day)
3. Homework (submitted online weekly, with individualized feedback the following week)
4. Final project/exam

For more details on how these online courses work, click here.  Students successfully completing the Program receive a certificate and transcript.

Library Services

PASS candidates and all students who have enrolled in a course within the last 12 months may borrow materials from the Institute library.  Please use this library request form.

Placement Services

As a PASS candidate, once you successfully complete half your program courses, you are eligible for our personalized placement services. We will review your background, your interests, and your work at the Institute, and try to find a match with appropriate recruiters. Our specialty is early-to-mid-career placement (not entry level).

When To Apply

Applications are accepted and students are enrolled year round on a rolling basis.  You pay an application fee and submit it with your application form.  You may pay the fee online here, or enclose a check (USD drawn on a US bank) with your application. NOTE: The application is your opportunity to specifically outline your past education and experience, and provide any other information you want us to consider during our review.  The value of this background and experience is the ability to place the statistical methods covered in the Program in an appropriate application context.  Once we have accepted your application, we will be happy to assist you with more specific questions about PASS.

Admission Criteria

1. A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university,
2. Successful completion of an introductory statistics course equivalent to Statistics.com's Intro courses series ("Introduction to Statistics for Beginners" through "Introduction to Statistics 3") that prepares the applicant for a passing score in the required entrance exam which covers basic statistics.
3. Passing score on the online entrance exam.

Note:  While it is not an admission requirement, applicants will also benefit from employment experience (or plans for employment) in an organization that works in the selected field of the Program you select.

Enrollment In PASS

Enroll in the Program of your choice here,  after your application is approved AND you have passed the entrance examination.  Once enrolled, register for each specific course within your PASS using the academic tuition rate as you are now a matriculated student at the Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com.

Rules and Policies:

• You must submit the application for the Program, pass the entrance exam and be enrolled before taking any required or elective course.*
• The program fee is is a one time charge in addition to tuition for individual courses.
• Once you are enrolled in PASS, you are considered a student at The Instutitue for Statistics Eduction at Statistics.com and are eligible to register for all courses at the academic tuition rate.
• You are expected to complete all the courses in your PASS within 5 years of your acceptance into the program. Any extensions must be approved in writing by the Institute prior to that 5-year deadline.

*Exception: Up to three Institute courses may be taken prior to enrolling in PASS; credit for these courses will be applied to your PASS, provided that adequate marks are earned.