Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics and Computer Applications

Biostatistics is routinely used to drive biology experiments. Data is gathered and analyzed before, during, and after a biology experiment, with the intent to come to some form of logical conclusion about what might not be exactly empirical results. On the other hand, a biostatistics experiment can be entirely mathematical; for example, the measurement of an animal’s temperature at various times of the day, and the subsequent tracking of other variables involved in those temperature measurements