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| Sep 13, 2015 at 0:23 | comment | added | Fomite | 'Clinical biostatistics' actually makes perfect sense to me. The assumptions, estimates, etc. that clinical researchers work with are markedly different, even to people "one field over". I have to change my entire mindset when I'm working with clinical data. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 20:52 | comment | added | Matt Parker | This isn't really addressing the question, however. I know what the definition of biostatistics is, but I don't know how it differs from statistics in practice, in education, in philosophy, etc. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 20:32 | comment | added | onestop | That usage of 'biometrics' is an unfortunate neologism. See tibs.org/interior.aspx?id=290 | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 20:14 | comment | added | carlosdc | I really don't think that biostatistics and biometrics are synonyms. Biometrics includes face recognition, finger print analysis, while biostatistics involved clinical trial design and so on... Similar names only. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 20:05 | history | answered | onestop | CC BY-SA 2.5 |