Biostatistika

Biostatistika (kadangkala disebut ogé biométrika), leuwih umum, nyaéta "aplikasi" statistika keur biologi jeung, biasa ogé dipaké, dina kedokteran. ku sabab pananya dina panalungtikan biologi jeung kedokteran mah rupa-rupa pisan, ambahan biostatistika ngalegaan antukna ngawengku modél kuantitatif naon waé nu bisa dipaké pikeun ngajawab pananya-pananyaéta.

Salaku hiji disiplin nu dirancang pikeun ngahasilkeun informasi, biostatistika bisa dianggap salah sahiji cabang informatika kedokteran, nu bisa pacampur jeung bioinformatika.

Akibatna, biostatistika mangrupa métodeu  kuantitatif saperti widang:
statistik,
operations research,
economics, and, generally,
matematik

and it is applied to reséarch questions in fields such as:
public health, which includes epidemiology, nutrition, environmental health, and health services research,
genomics and population genetics,
medicine,
ecology,
bioassay, and
agriculture.

Finally, the terms, biostatistics and biometry, appéar to be interchangéable, although biometry tends to connote a biological (or even agricultural), rather than medical, application.

Statistika
Biologi