Preface

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
William Osler (1849-1919).

Biostatistics is a fundamental discipline at the core of modern health data science (Lee et al. 2019). It is the science of managing medical uncertainty and biostatistical methods play a key role in the scientific assessment of the main areas of medical practice:

Diagnosis
Aetiology
Treatment
Prognosis

Leonhard Held

2024-10-15

References

Lee, Katherine J, Margarita Moreno‐Betancur, Jessica Kasza, Ian C Marschner, Adrian G Barnett, and John B Carlin. 2019. “Biostatistics: A Fundamental Discipline at the Core of Modern Health Data Science.” Medical Journal of Australia 211 (10): 444. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50372.