And if I may muddy the waters even more, what is the difference between biostatistics and biometry? Dick _______________________________________ Richard G. Seymann, Ph.D. Professor of Statistics Director of Academic Assessment Director of the Westover Honors Program Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA 24501 Phone: (804)544-8258, Fax: (804)544-8658
-----Original Message----- From: Rich Ulrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: biostatistics careers On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:07:33 -0500, Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > > > What _is_ "biostatistics", anyway? A student asked me, and I > > realized I have only a vague idea. > > > There was a thread on "biostatistics versus statistics" a couple years > ago, I think, but I was unable to find it at google groups. Maybe someone > out there saved some of it. groups.google.com on < biostatistics statistics > - I found a couple of notes, within the top 100. There were several comments on 23 Feb 2000 with the subject line, "re:biostatistics". They mention that medical background is important. And vocabulary. Also, as I vaguely remembered, I personally had answered a similar question, on 18 Feb 1998: ======= from my 1998 comment: - There are a couple of dozen or so U.S. universities that include a "Graduate School of Public Health." Here at the University of Pittsburgh, it is the GSPH that awards a degree in biostatistics. The course work for the degree does include courses which would not be required for "statistics" as I imagine it - epidemiology (chronic vs acute diseases), vital statistics, health services administration. [ ... ] ======= end of 1998 citation -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ================================================================= ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
