Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Your offer
You have been admitted. If you want to keep your place (seat), you do not have to reply to your offer.
If you do not want to keep your place you should decline your offer by logging in to 'My pages' on universityadmissions.se, and follow the instructions. You should click "I wish to decline this offer" next to the course or programme you want to decline.
If you see "Reserve" next to your course or programme in the Notification of selection results, this means that you've been placed on a waiting list for that course/programme.
2.Activate your user account and MFA
As a new student, you need to activate your user account (your UMU-id) approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
With your user account you can:
- register for courses
- access the internet in computer labs and the university's wireless network
- submit assignments and verify your study results
- access your student e-mail
If you are a new student, you will automatically receive a user account when you are admitted, but you will need to activate it for it to function properly. You will not be able to activate it until approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
Exchange student or tuition fee paying student
If you are an exchange student or tuition fee paying student, you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account.
Install MFA for a more secure login
To increase security and reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your information or account, students must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to various systems, such as Canvas and the Student Web.
I want to activate my user account and install MFA
Help! It´s not working
If you are having problems activating your account or logging in, please contact our Servicedesk. You will find answers to common questions, and can submit enquiries.
3.Course registration
The course starts off with registration and introduction. To be registered you need to attend the first lecture and the roll call. If you are unable to attend, you need to contact the study administator Eva.selin@umu.se or else you risk losing your place/seat in the course.
Self-registration is not available!
Note that studies are on-Campus and will not avaliable for distance learning!
4.Course start
2026-10-12
Will be updated
Will be updated
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
A detailed schedule will be sent by mail before the course starts!
About the course
Course structure
This course focuses on giving an understanding to the statistical reasoning within scientific methodology and the analyses of data.
All students need to bring their own laptop!
The course starts on Monday 12th of October and will end with a written exam.
Find more information about the course in its syllabus.
If you have any questions you are welcome to contat us.
Course administrator: Eva Selin
Learning platform
In this course, we use the learning platform Canvas. There you will find for example course schedule, instructions for exercises during the course and messages from the teachers. In order to get access to the learning platform, you sign in using your Umu-id user identity. You will get access to the Canvas site (Biostatistics) after the registration at the first day on the course.
Course litteratur
We strongly recommend that you buy the course book. You are allowed to use it at the exam!
Mandatory: Medical statistics - a textbook for the health sciences
Machin David., Campbell Michael J., Walters Stephen John.
4th ed. : Chichester : Wiley : 2007. : xii, 331 p. :
ISBN: 0470976632 (e-book)
Link University Library
The book has a 5th edition that recently was published and can be recommended.
Medical statistics - A Textbook for the Health Sciences (not available as e-book)
Walters SJ, Campbell MJ and Machin D.
Medical Statistics Fifth edition. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons 2021
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