<p>Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B. Strongly recommended: variety of other graduate coursework. Sample size and power analysis methods for common study designs, including comparison s of means and proportions, ANOVA, time-to-event data, group sequential trials, linear regression, cluster randomized trials and multilevel data, with emphasis on designing randomized trials. Discussion also of multiple endpoints. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Biostatistics

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Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

Biostatistics encompasses the methodology and theory of statistics as applied to problems in the life and health sciences.

General Catalog

Statistical Power and Sample Size Methods for Health Research

BIOSTAT 231

4 units