<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 202A, 202B, or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Mathematical underpinnings of Bayesian approach to statistical inference; closed form computations; computation; hierarchical models; model selection; hypothesis testing; prior specification; comparative inference; nonparametric methods. 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

Theory of Bayesian Statistics

BIOSTAT 202C

4 units