Introduction to Biostatistics Principles
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Biostatistics is the application of statistical principles to questions and problems in medicine, public health or biology. The discipline of biostatistics provides tools and techniques for collecting data and then summarizing, analyzing, and interpreting it. If the samples one takes are representative of the population of interest, they will provide good estimates regarding the population overall. Consequently, in biostatistics one analyzes samples in order to make inferences about the population. This module introduces fundamental concepts and definitions for biostatistics.
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Videos:
Statistics: Basics – Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Lecturio
Ebooks:
Biostatistics for Dummies
By John C. Pezzullo, PhD