COM SCI M296B · CS M296BOptimal Parameter Estimation and Experiment Design for Biomedical Systems
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Bioengineering M296B, Biomathematics M270, and Medicine M270D.) Estimation methodology and model parameter estimation algorithms for fitting dynamic system models to biomedical data. Model discrimination methods. Theory and algorithms for designing optimal experiments for developing and quantifying models, with special focus on optimal sampling schedule design for kinetic models. Exploration of PC software for model building and optimal experiment design via applications in physiology and pharmacology.
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
Requisite: course CM286 or M296A or Biomathematics 220.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI M296B
- COM SCI CM286Computational Systems Biology: Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH M32TEssential Calculus for Mathematical Biologists
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- COM SCI M296AAdvanced Modeling Methodology for Dynamic Biomedical Systems
- EC ENGR 141Principles of Feedback Control
- EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
- MATH 115ALinear Algebra
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- EC ENGR 142Linear Systems: State-Space Approach
2 direct requisites. Showing 28 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM SCI M296B
- COM SCI M296CAdvanced Topics and Research in Biomedical Systems Modeling and Computing
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.