Applying Statistics in a Medical University: Systems Approach

Medical statistics is a subdiscipline of statistics that involves summarizing, collecting, presenting and interpreting data in medical practice, and utilizing them to estimate the magnitude of associations and test hypotheses. A medical statistician in an academic research unit, will invariably be part of a team responsible for generating ideas and then designing, implementing and analysing clinical studies. Quantitative research lays down the guide lines for health care decision makers with statistics--numerical data collected from measurements or observation of a phenomenon that describes the characteristics of specific population samples. Descriptive statistics emphasizes on the utility, efficacy and costs of medical goods and services. Purpose of biostatistics is to disentangle the data received and make valid inferences that used to solve problems in public health. Biostatistics is the application of statistical methods to conduct research in the areas of biology, public health, and medicine. Statistics involves mathematics + logic + judgement.