BIOSTAT 241Spatial Modeling and Data Analysis for Health Sciences

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

Introduction of various methods for exploring, modeling, and analyzing spatially referenced datasets, with emphasis on environmental/natural sciences and public health. Statistical theory and foundations for carrying out principled and scientifically rigorous inference on spatially referenced datasets and computational methods and algorithms for executing statistical modeling in practice. Practical examples and applications demonstrated using open-source statistical software environment R and datasets from diverse fields, such as public health, environmental health, natural sciences, and economics.

Letter grading.

When it runs

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

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 202A, 202B.

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BIOSTAT 241

4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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