BIOSTAT 255A
Advanced Probability and Statistics
Biostatistics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Survey of probability theory, with special emphasis on applications to biostatistics. Topics include probability spaces and random variables, generating functions, conditioning, discrete-time martingales, applications to finite sample analysis of statistical procedures.
S/U or letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 202A or equivalent, Mathematics 131A or consent of instructor.
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- BIOSTAT 202A
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- MATH 131A
- consent of instructor
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
BIOSTAT 255A
- BIOSTAT 202AMathematical Statistics A
- MATH 131AAnalysis
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
Unlocks
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BIOSTAT 255A
- BIOSTAT 250CMultivariate Biostatistics
- BIOSTAT 255BAdvanced Probability and Statistics
- BIOSTAT 270Stochastic Processes
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