BIOSTAT 255BAdvanced Probability and Statistics
Biostatistics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Survey of advanced topics in probability and mathematical statistics, with special emphasis on applications to biostatistics. Topics include laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, basic concepts from stochastic processes, and applications to large sample theory in biostatistics.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 255A or consent of instructor, Mathematics 131A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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- BIOSTAT 255A
- consent of instructor
- MATH 131A
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
BIOSTAT 255B
- BIOSTAT 255AAdvanced Probability and Statistics
- BIOSTAT 202AMathematical Statistics A
- MATH 131AAnalysis
2 direct requisites. Showing 9 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
BIOSTAT 255B
- BIOSTAT 250CMultivariate Biostatistics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.