statistical

(adjective)

of or pertaining to statistics

Related Terms

Examples of statistical in the following topics:

  • Analytical Epidemiology

    • Epidemiology draws statistical inferences, mostly about causes of disease in populations based on available samples of it.
    • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review).

  • The Science of Epidemiology

    • Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to better understand proximate and distal causes, and engineering for exposure assessment.
    • The complex field of epidemiology, which draws on biology, sociology, mathematics, statistics, anthropology, psychology, and policy only makes analysis even more challenging.

  • Experimental Epidemiology

    • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results (including peer review and occasional systematic review).
    • Although epidemiology is sometimes viewed as a collection of statistical tools used to elucidate the associations of exposures to health outcomes, a deeper understanding of this science is that of discovering causal relationships.

  • Bioinformatic Analyses and Gene Distributions

    • Bioinformatics also deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, structural biology, software engineering, data mining, image processing, modeling and simulation, discrete mathematics, control and system theory, circuit theory, and statistics.
    • the development of new algorithms (mathematical formulas) and statistics with which to assess relationships among members of large data sets.

  • Disease Severity and Duration

    • Such categories can include a set of similar diseases.The International Classification of Diseases is published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is used worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems, and automated decision support in health care.
    • This system is designed to promote international comparability in the collection, processing, classification, and presentation of these statistics.

  • History of Epidemiology

    • Epidemiologists help with study design, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination of results.
    • Another breakthrough was the 1954 publication of the results of a British Doctors Study, led by Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill, which lent very strong statistical support to the suspicion that tobacco smoking was linked to lung cancer.

  • Viable Cell Counting

    • Fewer than 30 colonies makes the interpretation statistically unsound and greater than 300 colonies often results in overlapping colonies and imprecision in the count.

  • Pharyngitis

    • While the rapid strep test is quicker, it has a lower sensitivity (70%) and a statistically equal specificity (98%) as a throat culture.

  • Gene Families

    • Recent work uses a combination of statistical models and algorithmic techniques to detect gene families that are under the effect of natural selection.

  • The Cardiovascular System

    • Because a definitive diagnosis requires a heart biopsy, which doctors are reluctant to do because they are invasive, statistics on the incidence of myocarditis vary widely.