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    1. Biostatistics examples include the high association between smoking and cancer risk, antibiotics reducing viral throat infections by 1-2 days, and 50 patients being diagnosed with angina at a health center last year. 2. Statistics is defined as the science of collecting, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data to transform raw facts and figures into useful information through processes like calculations, comparisons, and decision making. 3. The ultimate goal of statistical analysis is to make the best decisions possible when faced with uncertainties in data.

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    1. Biostatistics examples include the high association between smoking and cancer risk, antibiotics reducing viral throat infections by 1-2 days, and 50 patients being diagnosed with angina at a health center last year. 2. Statistics is defined as the science of collecting, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data to transform raw facts and figures into useful information through processes like calculations, comparisons, and decision making. 3. The ultimate goal of statistical analysis is to make the best decisions possible when faced with uncertainties in data.

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    1. Biostatistics examples include the high association between smoking and cancer risk, antibiotics reducing viral throat infections by 1-2 days, and 50 patients being diagnosed with angina at a health center last year. 2. Statistics is defined as the science of collecting, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data to transform raw facts and figures into useful information through processes like calculations, comparisons, and decision making. 3. The ultimate goal of statistical analysis is to make the best decisions possible when faced with uncertainties in data.

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    Familiar Examples of Biostatistics

    1.There is very high association between smoking and cancer risk. 2.Reduction duration of viral throat infections by Antibiotics is 1-2 days. 3.At our health centre, 50 patients were diagnosed with angina last year. 4.Drug A is better than Drug B with 95% confidence.

    What is Statistics? Statistics may be defined as the science of collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of numerical data. - Croxton & Cowdon

    Data

    Process

    Information

    Data Collection of interrelated raw facts and figures not directly of any use. (Data are the raw materials of statistics) Information Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person.

    Examples Data
    * Collection of Age, Sex, Height, Weight of students in a school * Cholesterol level, HDL, GSH of 20 diabetic patients

    Information
    * Average Age, Sex, Height, Weight of students in a school * Average and range of cholesterol level, HDL, GSH of 20 diabetic patients

    The term PROCESS Consists of Calculations : eg. Calculation of Mean & SD Comparisons : eg. Comparison of control & experimental groups Decision Making : eg. Decision taken about acceptance or rejection of a Drug.

    Ultimate Goal of Statistical Analysis


    To Take Best Decision Under Uncertainties

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