NURSING 291AApplied Statistics and Analytics for Health Sciences Research I
Nursing · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to applied statistics. Students gain skills to understand, conduct analyses, and interpret results of analyses to answer simple comparative and relationship research questions relevant to health science research. Topics include statistical inference and probability, distributions, effect size, analyses for description, data visualization, parametric and nonparametric tests for simple comparisons and relationships, and research database design and management. Students conduct analyses with statistical software and interpret results from their analyses and from research reports in literature.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: doctoral standing or consent of instructor, introductory statistics course.
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Requires
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NURSING 291A
- NURSING 291BApplied Statistics and Analytics for Health Sciences Research II
- NURSING 291CSpecial Topics in Applied Statistics and Analytics for Health Sciences Research III
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.