BIOMATH 170AIntroductory 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.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.