More female respondents (70.7%) in comparison to male respondents (56.3%) felt that
biostatistics was a tough subject (P = 0.03) and very few female respondents (13.8%) were confident that they could apply statistical analysis of their own; in comparison to this, 20.4% male respondents were confident that they could conduct their own statistical analysis (P = 0.01).
Biostatistics is specifically a subset of the analytical processes focused on identifying specific types of patterns/ trends through the use of statistical tools.
Gilberto Ramos-Valencia, DrPH, is Chair of the Department of
Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the GSPH, UPR-MSC.
Sharon-Lise Normand, MSc, PhD, is Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and Professor of
Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.
(7,8) Furthermore, no studies have directly assessed pathology resident abilities or attitudes regarding
biostatistics or EBM.
I hope BioTiqania will soon offer another segment on
Biostatistics with one full day allocated to the analysis and interpretation of case studies."
KEY CONCEPTS: outsourcing,
biostatistics, business model innovation, dynamic capability.
Long received her PhD from the University of Iowa in 1995 in
Biostatistics. Her dissertation title was "Simultaneous interval estimation for functions of multinomial probabilities".
Topics include descriptive epidemiology and
biostatistics, analytic epidemiology, epidemic investigations, public health surveillance, surveys and sampling, Epi Info (Windows version) training, and discussions of selected prevalent diseases.
Third Seattle Symposium in
Biostatistics: Statistical Genetics and Genomics.
"The meta-analysis is flawed," charges Donald Berry, chairman of the Department of
Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
These disciplines should include ecology; entomology; occupational medicine; pathology; animal and human behavioral science; epidemiology;
biostatistics; economics; clinical veterinary and human medicine; human and veterinary public health; environmental health; and regulatory, wildlife, and agricultural sciences.