what is bio-statistics?
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Statistics is the collection, processing, interpretation and presentation of numerical information. Emmanuel Parzen of Texas A & M has said, "Statistics is like art. It's all about compression." What he meant was that, like an artist who tries to embody her perception of the world onto a finite canvas, a statistician tries to compress her perception of the world into a finite set of explanatory factors. At its very center, statistics is a ever-growing set of quantitative methods that examine past behavior to predict future behavior. \n\nThe application of statistics allows statisticians to: \n\nFormulate questions to be answered by collecting data \nSpecify by what design the data are to be collected \nSummarize the information in the data as statistics \nAnalyze statistics to draw and present conclusions \nBiostatistics is a branch of statistics that applies its methods for research in biology, medicine, and public health. The intent of biostatistics is to better understand the factors that affect human health through the judicious use of statistical methods. \nBecause many factors affect human health, statistical research in various fields is often termed as biostatistics. These fields include: \n\npharmacology \nbiology \nbiotechnology \ngenetics \nmedicine \nbiometry \ndentistry \npsychiatry \nphysiology \nradiology / medical imaging \ncancer \nAIDS \npublic health \nepidemiology \nhealth status of populations assessment \nenvironmental health \nmedical decision making \nnutrition \nhealth policy assessment \nhealth services research \nhealth behavior intervention assessment \nFields that either encompass or share concepts with biostatistics are statistics, medical informatics, epidemiology, operations research, and medicine.
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try:\n\nwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\n\nnot yahoo answers
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What kind of statistic are you looking for?
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what type of statistics?
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This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. \n\nExploratory Data Analysis is also a good site\n\n\navailable at the site below
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Bioinformatics is using computer to analyse bio-data. Such as a huge data base of human genome, or what they are working on now - the human proteome. \n\nBiotechnology is a really wide topic, can include gene manipulation, amplification, forensics etc etc. Such as putting a jelly fish glow gene into a mice so it glows in dark. Really cool stuff. Protein manipulations, etc etc etc
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Biochemistry\n\nThe chemistry of biology, the application of the tools and concepts of chemistry to living systems. \n\nBiochemists study such things as the structures and physical properties of biological molecules, including proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids; the mechanisms of enzyme action; the chemical regulation of metabolism; the chemistry of nutrition; the molecular basis of genetics (inheritance); the chemistry of vitamins; energy utilization in the cell; and the chemistry of the immune response.\n\nFields closely related to biochemistry include biophysics, cell biology, and molecular biology. Biophysics applies to biology the techniques of physics. Cell biology is concerned with the organization and functioning of the individual cell. Molecular biology, a term first used in 1950, It overlaps biochemistry and is principally concerned with the molecular level of organization. \n\nThe science of biochemistry has also been called physiological chemistry and biological chemistry
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Bioinformatics--\n\nBioinformatics and computational biology involve the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution.\n\nThe terms bioinformatics and computational biology are often used interchangeably. However bioinformatics more properly refers to the creation and advancement of algorithms, computational and statistical techniques, and theory to solve formal and practical problems posed by or inspired from the management and analysis of biological data. Computational biology, on the other hand, refers to hypothesis-driven investigation of a specific biological problem using computers, carried out with experimental and simulated data, with the primary goal of discovery and the advancement of biological knowledge. A similar distinction is made by National Institutes of Health in their working definitions of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, where it is further emphasized that there is a tight coupling of developments and knowledge between the more hypothesis-driven research in computational biology and technique-driven research in bioinformatics. Computational biology also includes lesser known but equally important subdisciplines such as computational biochemistry and computational biophysics.\n\nA common thread in projects in bioinformatics and computational biology is the use of mathematical tools to extract useful information from data produced by high-throughput biological techniques such as genome sequencing. A representative problem in bioinformatics is the assembly of high-quality genome sequences from fragmentary "shotgun" DNA sequencing. Other common problems include the study of gene regulation using data from microarrays or mass spectrometry.
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heres a good web site you might like http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/
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Bio-informatics is a field of study in which biology questions are answered using mathemacts and computer science. For exampls, bioinformatics techniques were used to sequence the human genome (very powerful computers were used to "crunch the numbers" in order to decipher the sequence of various amino acid chains.)
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biology:n. The scientific study of living things and their life processes
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Biological science is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. It is concerned with the characteristics, classification, and behaviors of organisms, how species come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with the environment. Biology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. However, together they address phenomena related to living organisms (biological phenomena) over a wide range of scales, from biochemistry to ecology.\n\nAt the organism level, biology has explained phenomena such as birth, growth, aging, death and decay of living organisms, similarities between offspring and their parents (heredity) and flowering of plants which have puzzled humanity throughout history. Other phenomena, such as lactation, metamorphosis, egg-hatching, healing, and tropism have been addressed. On a wider scale of time and space, biologists have studied domestication of animals and plants, the wide variety of living organisms (biodiversity), changes in living organisms over time (evolution), extinction, speciation, social behaviour among animals, etc.
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Engineering Statistics is based on the fact that everything can be explained as either part of a larger population or it is not.\nIf it is part of the population, the hypothesis test is true. If it is not part of the population the hypothesis is false and there must be an assignable cause.\n\nEngineering is always looking for inprovement. Using stats helps to explain variables and interactions affecting the outcome of an event.\n\nThere are other tools to accomplish this task, i.e. Run Charts, Scatter Diagrams, Taguchi Experiments, Design of Experiments, XbarR, Value Mapping ect.\n\nRead up on Deming, Joiner, Juran\n\nLook at the following Gurus list:
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try this website\n\nhttp://www.nscalliance.org/bioinformatics/databases.asp
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The NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative Consortium agreed on the following definitions of bioinformatics and computational biology recognizing that no definition could completely eliminate overlap with other activities or preclude variations in interpretation by different individuals and organizations.\n\nBioinformatics: Research, development, or application of computational tools and approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral or health data, including those to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze, or visualize such data.\n\nComputational Biology: The development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems.
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It is called biochemestry
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yes, go to site biodavidson.edu