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Statistics is the science of learning from data, and of measuring, controlling, and communicating uncertainty; and it thereby provides the navigation essential for controlling the course of scientific and societal advances (Davidian, M. and Louis, T. A., 10.1126/science.1218685).
The book is comprehensive for an introductory biostatistics course in health sciences. The breadth and the depth of the covered topics are appropriate for the upper undergraduate health science students.
Biostatistics is the application of statistical principles to questions and problems in medicine, public health or biology.
Biostatistics begins with descriptive statistics that implies summarizing a collection of data from a sample or population. Categorical data are described in terms of percentages or proportions.
One should start by examining what sorts of variables one has. We distinguish between categorical and continuous variables: only a few possible values for the rst, and in principle, an in nite number of possible values for the second. Univariate summaries: simple summaries of each variable. Example: tables, median and quantiles.
introduction into one of the following six categories: considerable improvement, moderate/slight improvement, no material change, moderate/slight deterioration, considerable deterioration, or death.
What is Biostatistics? Biostatistics is a branch of biological science which deals with the study and methods of collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of data of biological research. Biostatistics is also called as biometrics since it involves many measurements and calculations.