Statistic vs Biostatistics - What's the difference?
statistic | biostatistics |
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.
(biology, mathematics) The application of statistics to the study and analysis of biological and medical data
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
English
(wikipedia statistic)Noun
(en noun)- By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic .