There was no statistical difference in their agreement on
biostatistics being a difficult subject (P = 0.1) when comparison was made between different academic positions whereas there was a highly significant difference among the proportion of staff (39.5%) in comparison to PG students (27.1%) regarding the confidence of designing their own research projects (P < 0.001).
Moore:
Biostatistics is a formal discipline that employs mathematics to carry out point estimation and hypothesis testing with the goal of answering biological and biomedical problems.
Sergio Munoz, DrPH, is a Professor of
Biostatistics of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile.
Resident attitudes and confidence regarding
biostatistics and critical appraisal of the medical literature were measured precurriculum and postcurriculum.
Statistical analysis of the clinical data is a key point of regulatory scrutiny, suggesting that
biostatistics would have to be developed as a core competence for pharmaceutical companies to be successful.
Long is the Director, Office of Data Management &
Biostatistics at PCCR.
In addition to my MD I have an MBA and a masters in
biostatistics. I'm also a Certified Physician Executive.
Ira Longini, a
biostatistics professor at Emory University, says that the flu vaccine works for elderly people, but not very well.
This workshop will focus on various techniques of analyzing statistical data with particular reference to
biostatistics.
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Biostatistics, 2000, Vol.
"The potential ramifications of this project on our ability to improve health care are enormous," said Ed Davis, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of
Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina.
Gordon Guyatt, an expert on evidence-based medicine, and professor of clinical epidemiology and
biostatistics in the family health sciences at McMaster University, says that scarce health dollars should not be spent on unproven treatments.
