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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Application of statistics to the analysis of biological and medical data.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Vital statistics.
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- noun biology, mathematics The application of
statistics to the study and analysis ofbiological andmedical data
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis
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Directed by Dr. Scott Lorch, this seminar provides didactic and practical experience in biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, and clinical study design.
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Formal didactic training in biostatistics and epidemiology is provided through coursework at The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), culminating in receipt of a Master's in Clinical Epidemiology or Public Health.
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Alternatively fellows can take individual courses in biostatistics and epidemiology at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Formal didactic training in biostatistics and epidemiology is provided through coursework at The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), culminating in receipt of a Master's in Clinical Epidemiology or Public Health.
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Deanne Taylor is the program director of the bioinformatics graduate program at Brandeis University, as well as a research scientists in biostatistics at the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health. rENNISance woman is the blog of Cath Ennis, research development facilitator at BC Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver.
Nature Network Looking For Non-North American Non-European Science Bloggers Peggy 2008
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Deanne Taylor is the program director of the bioinformatics graduate program at Brandeis University, as well as a research scientists in biostatistics at the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health. rENNISance woman is the blog of Cath Ennis, research development facilitator at BC Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver.
Archive 2008-09-01 Peggy 2008
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Steve Milloy who started that has a total of zero peer reviewed publications, a masters degree in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins which requires no substantial thesis, and yet somehow is supposed to be an expert on what is junk in science.
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming 2006
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We could have at some more Republican hacks now, like Steven Milloy, the Junkman of Science, who says he has a masters in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins, but to judge from the ISI Web of Science, not a single peer reviewed scientific publication.
BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University Nick Anthis 2006
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Granted, biostatistics are not easy to understand, and harder to explain to a lay audience.
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Dr. Donald Berry, head of biostatistics at the M.D.
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