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Statistic vs Biostatistics - What's the difference?

statistic | biostatistics |

As nouns the difference between statistic and biostatistics

is that statistic is a single item in a statistical study while biostatistics is (biology|mathematics) the application of statistics to the study and analysis of biological and medical data.

As an adjective statistic

is .

statistic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A single item in a statistical study.
  • A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
  • A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
  • By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic .

    Synonyms

    * number

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * statistically * statistician

    biostatistics

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia biostatistics) (-)
  • (biology, mathematics) The application of statistics to the study and analysis of biological and medical data