Anthropometry

See Also

• Auxology

Description

Biostatistics or biometry is the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology. It has particular applications to medicine and to agriculture.

Applications of biostatistics

• Public health, including epidemiology, nutrition and environmental health,
• Design and analysis of clinical trials in medicine
• Genomics, population genetics, and statistical genetics in populations in order to link variation in genotype with a variation in phenotype. This has been used in agriculture to improve crops and farm animals. In biomedical research, this work can assist in finding candidates for gene alleles that can cause or influence predisposition to disease in human genetics
• Ecology
• Biological sequence analysis

Links

• American Biometrics Society

Attribution

• This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Biostatistics".