Applications of Biostatistics
- Public health, including epidemiology, health services research, nutrition, environmental health and healthcare policy & management.
- Design and analysis of clinical trials in medicine
- Population genetics, and statistical genetics in order to link variation in genotype with a variation in phenotype. This has been used in agriculture to improve crops and farm animals (animal breeding). In biomedical research, this work can assist in finding candidates for gene alleles that can cause or influence predisposition to disease in human genetics
- Analysis of genomics data, for example from microarray or proteomics experiments. Often concerning diseases or disease stages.
- Ecology, ecological forecasting
- Biological sequence analysis
- Systems biology for gene network inference or pathways analysis.
Statistical methods are beginning to be integrated into medical informatics, public health informatics, bioinformatics and computational biology.
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