<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Intensive elementary statistics course emphasizing design and applications to observational studies and experiments/clinical trials. Statistical topics include study design, descriptive statistics, elementary probability and distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, sample size and power, linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics. Applications to biomedical literature and design of clinical trials. Letter grading.</p>

Biomathematics

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David Geffen School of Medicine

The department's primary goal is to build and implement the mathematical models that are crucial for the advancement of modern biomedical sciences.

General Catalog

Introductory Biomathematics for Medical Investigators

BIOMATH 170A

4 units