BIOMATH 170A
Introductory Biomathematics for Medical Investigators
Biomathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Intensive elementary statistics course emphasizing design and applications to observational studies and experiments/clinical trials. Statistical topics include study design, descriptive statistics, elementary probability and distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, sample size and power, linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics. Applications to biomedical literature and design of clinical trials.
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BIOMATH 170A
- BIOMATH 260AMethodology in Clinical Research I
- BIOMATH 260BMethodology in Clinical Research II
- BIOMATH 265AData Analysis Strategies I
- BIOMATH 265BData Analysis Strategies II
- BIOMATH 266AApplied Regression Analysis in Medical Sciences
- BIOMATH 266BAdvanced Biostatistics
- BIOMATH 268Analysis of Electronic Health Records
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