NURSING 291Applied Statistics and Analytics for Health Sciences Research
Nursing · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to applied statistics, providing students with essential skills to understand, analyze, and interpret data for comparative and relationship research questions relevant to health sciences. Exploration of foundational topics, including statistical inference and probability, distributions, effect size, descriptive statistics, data visualization, parametric and nonparametric tests for simple comparisons and relationships, as well as research database design and management. Emphasis is placed on practical skills such as statistical software proficiency, critical interpretation of results and effective evaluation of research reports in the literature.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.