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BIOSTAT 218Observational Health Data Science and Informatics

Biostatistics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Elements of observational research in the health data sciences. Topics include disease cohort characterization, patient-level prediction and population-level estimation using administrative claims, and electronic health records.

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Requisites

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Requisites: courses 201A, 203A, 203B, 203C.

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  • BIOSTAT 201A
  • BIOSTAT 203A
  • BIOSTAT 203B
  • BIOSTAT 203C

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BIOSTAT 218

  • BIOSTAT 201AIntroduction to Biostatistics
  • BIOSTAT 203AIntroduction to Data Management and Statistical Computing
  • BIOSTAT 203BIntroduction to Data Science in R
    • BIOSTAT 203AIntroduction to Data Management and Statistical Computinganother path to it
  • BIOSTAT 203CIntroduction to Data Science in Python
    • BIOSTAT 203AIntroduction to Data Management and Statistical Computinganother path to it
    • BIOSTAT 203BIntroduction to Data Science in Ranother path to it
    • BIOSTAT 212AStatistical Learning A

4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 8 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.