Biostatistics is the applied study of statistics in the areas of biology and medicine.
This study seeks to understand the planning, collection, evaluation and analysis of all data obtained in the biological and medical research, being of fundamental importance to the fields of epidemiology, ecology and social Psychology.
As the objects of study in Biology have become varied, Biostatistics has expanded the field so that any quantitative model could be used in research and that could meet the needs of each specific area.
In this context, it is able to safely assess medical and biological data, to obtain greater security in the analysis. clinics, through advanced tools and specific software to carry out statistical analysis of the problem studied.
Therefore, it can be considered a specialized branch of Medical Informatics, which is the application of communications and health informatics, complemented by Bioinformatics, which is the technology used for data management and analysis biological.
Biostatistics has as its main advantage the fact that it not only solves, but is also capable of understanding a complex study methodology to respond to hypotheses, in addition to streamlining and organizing the investigation system, from the general project, the sample, the control of the quality of information and the provision of results.
It also has benefits such as being able to develop studies that enable the creation of new drugs and the understanding of chronic diseases such as AIDS and cancer. It has also become fundamental for research in public health, such as the study on epidemiology, environmental health, nutrition and sanitation, population genetics, medicine, ecology and bioassays.