biostatisticians
Healthcare data analysts
Biostatisticians are specialists who apply statistical methods to biological, medical, and public health research.
They design studies, analyze clinical trial data, and interpret patterns in disease occurrence or treatment outcomes.
The field combines mathematics with life sciences: The biostatisticians determined the vaccine's efficacy.
See also statistician, epidemiologist.
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- ANOVACompares means among groups
- chi-squareStatistic for categorical data
- t-testHypothesis check for averages
- BayesianPrior-to-posterior probability approach
multivariate · bootstrap · likelihood · correlation · covariance · variance · inference · estimation
Along the longer dimension
- categoricalUnconditional and explicit
- continuousWithout pause or gap
- outliersExtreme data points
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
cleaning · wrangling · visualization · SAS · R · SPSS · Python · database
State of being widespread
- incidenceRate of occurrence
- mortalityState of eventual death
- morbidityDisease occurrence rate
- confoundingCausing surprise or confusion
outbreak · surveillance · transmission · exposure · contact-tracing · endemic · pandemic · screening
Study of entire genetic sequences
- phylogeneticsScience of ancestral relationships
- biomarkersMeasurable disease indicators
- sequencingDetermining element order
- GWASGenetic variant population analysis
Judicial examination of claims
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
- double-blindNeither tester nor tested knows
- efficacyAbility to produce results
- safetyFreedom from harm
protocol · phases · multicenter · intervention · outcome · endpoint · enrollment · crossover
regression
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- ANOVACompares means among groups
- chi-squareStatistic for categorical data
- t-testHypothesis check for averages
Bayesian · multivariate · bootstrap · likelihood · correlation · covariance · variance · inference · estimation · p-value
longitudinal
Along the longer dimension
- categoricalUnconditional and explicit
- continuousWithout pause or gap
- outliersExtreme data points
normalization · cleaning · wrangling · visualization · SAS · R · SPSS · Python · database · reproducibility
prevalence
State of being widespread
confounding · outbreak · surveillance · transmission · exposure · contact-tracing · endemic · pandemic · screening
genomics
Study of entire genetic sequences
- phylogeneticsScience of ancestral relationships
- biomarkersMeasurable disease indicators
- sequencingDetermining element order
trial
Judicial examination of claims
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
- double-blindNeither tester nor tested knows
- efficacyAbility to produce results
safety · protocol · phases · multicenter · intervention · outcome · endpoint · enrollment · crossover · blinding
- industry workerstechnicians, scientists, researchers, engineers, managers
- Health Advocateshealth educators, health departments, community health workers, advocacy groups, CDC
biostatisticianslab technicians
Staff conducting experimental procedures
experimentalists · ethnographers · phenomenologists · surgeons · lab assistants
biostatisticiansfaith healers
Those claiming supernatural cures
shamans · psychics · homeopaths · naturopaths · pseudoscientists
statistics, biologist, statistician, biometrics, bioscience, bioinformatics, biostatistics