Question

What is biostatistics? Describe its applications.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The application of statistics to biology, medicine, nursing, and other health-related professions is called bio statistics.

Applications

Testing a new drug's efficacy come to mind, comparing, say, the survival rates of two groups of cancer patients, one who had the standard treatment and the other a new treatment. Ideally, the two groups would be randomized to either the standard group or the new treatment group, and neither the doctor nor the patient would know which patient was in which group.