Biostatistics

专业介绍

With health-related data being generated at an exponentially increasing pace by an ever-widening variety of sources, and amid rapid advances in high-powered computing, biostatistical methods, and machine learning, biostatisticians are needed more than ever to help collect and analyze this explosion of data to identify new public health interventions and novel medical treatments. The growing number of rich data sources hold insights for improving healthcare, advancing medical science, identifying better treatments for disease, developing better health policies, creating educational interventions, and providing guidance on the most efficient use of resources to meet public health goals. Turning complex datasets into scientifically sound, actionable findings requires expertise in state-of-the-art biostatistical modeling and practice, data analysis, data science, and computational tools, as well as in the foundations of public health. It requires asking the right questions and reaching evidence-based conclusions. This is the purview of biostatisticians.