Biostatistics Courses

Biostatistics offers  courses  in both theory and application for graduate majors, as well as  introductory graduate-level service courses for non-majors.  The department also offers one undergraduate-level introduction to the field, Biost/Stat 111, every Spring quarter.  

If you have any questions about the information included here, please contact the Curriculum Coordinator, Alexandra MacKenzie, at: alexam@u.washington.edu.

  • Syllabi for Past Courses
  • Taking Biostatistics Courses if You are Not a University of Washington Student


    • Distance Learning

    Spring 2008

    Professor Elizabeth Thompson (Statistics Department) is offering a Distance Learning course for Spring Quarter 2008: Biost/Stat 550 - Statistical Genetics I. Please see her course web site at http://www.stat.washington.edu/thompson/Stat550/Online_2008/.


    BIOST 511: Medical Biometry I: PRE-TEST INFORMATION

    Biostatistics 511 is a service course for non-Biostat majors, and the first course in the Medical Biometry sequence (followed by Biost 512 in Winter and 513 in Spring).  It is an open-enrollment course; however, prospective students should be able to pass a basic college-level algebra pre-test before enrolling. 

    Our standard 511 pre-test may be found here as a pdf.  This is a self-assessed test. 

    Give yourself 50 minutes to complete the test. Check your answers by  using this test key (pdf). 

    Using a scale from 0 (zero) to 100 [where zero means poor and 100 means excellent], how well did you do in the pre-test? 
    If your score is less than 60, you should brush-up. Here is a list with some references for math textbooks.


    BIOST 511-12-13 and BIOST 517-18: 

    The difference between these two service course sequences is described in this pdf memorandum.