Biostatistics (or biometry) is the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology. The science of biostatistics encompasses the design of biological experiments, especially in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture and fishery; the collection, summarization, and analysis of data from those experiments; and the interpretation of, and inference from, the results. A major branch of this is medical biostatistics, which is exclusively concern
Biostatistics is a branch of (practical) statistics whose focus and emphasis is on the development and application of statistical methods that are posed to solve and respond to the questions relevant to the health, medicine, genetics and human biology. Graduates of this field will be able to occupy teaching and research positions in universities and research centers.