INTRODUCTION TO

BIOSTATISTICS
Jabez Asedillo
BIOSTATISTICS
It is the collection (data from public,
phenomena, disease, etc.), organization,
analysis and interpretation of data
DESCRIPTIVE BIOSTAT
Summarize and present data in a form
that is easier to analyze (summary
measures, tables, graphs, rates, ratios
and proportions)
INFERENTIAL BIOSTAT
Making estimates, predictions,
generalizations of a given population.
VARIATION
Tendency of a given characteristic to
change from one individual or setting to
another.
VARIABLE
Measurement or characteristic which
changes form one individual or setting to
another.
 TYPES OF VARIABLES

QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE
Labels for distinguising Expressed numerically and can be
arranged according to magnitude

DISCRETE CONTINUOUS
Fractions/Decimals
Whole Numbers
 LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT OF VARIABLES
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio
Qualitative Qualitative Quantitative Quantitative

Can be ordered or Zero does not mean Zero means

Labels only ranked but same as absence of the absolute absence of
nominal characteristic characteristic.
SOURCES OF DATA FOR PRESENTATION
Frequency Correlation Data Time series Data
Distribution
Compares two or more
Data are grouped Data that are collected
frequencies.
according to some scale over a time period.
Usually obtained from
of classification, where
conducting
the sum of the entries is
epidemiologic studies
equal to the total
PARTS OF A TABLE

TITLE
-Should state the objective of the table
-Should state the following clearly, briefly and
comprehensively:
1. What the figures in the body of the table
stands for
2. How the data are classified
3. Where and When the data were obtained
PARTS OF A TABLE

STUBS
- Indicates the basis of classification of table
rows.
- The leftmost column of the table, which
contains
the subjects to which the table data apply.
PARTS OF A TABLE

COLUMN HEADINGS
- Indicate the basis of classification of the
columns or vertical series of figures
PARTS OF A TABLE

BODY OF THE TABLE

- This is made up of the figures filling the cells
or compartments brought about by the
coordinates of rows and columns.
PARTS OF A TABLE

MARGINAL TOOLS
- refer to the column totals and row totals
- tables must always have these
PARTS OF A TABLE

FOOTNOTE
- indicates the source of information
TRUE FALSE
The 1992 Summer Olympics
was held in Madrid, Spain.
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