单词 | biostatistics |
释义 | biostatisticsn. With singular agreement. A branch of statistics that deals with the analysis of biological and medical data. Also (with plural agreement): biostatistical data or characteristics. Cf. vital statistics n. at vital adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > expectation of life > statistical study of biostatistics1865 the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > within specific field statistics1797 biostatics1851 biostatistics1865 statistical mechanics1885 Bose–Einstein statistics1928 Bose statistics1931 stylometry1945 cliometrics1960 stylometric1968 bibliometrics1969 macrolinguistics1972 1865 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Biostatistics, statistics, medical. 1929 Public Health 42 229/2 The elements of biostatistics should form part of the herd's general education, instead of being considered a special subject. 1940 Science 31 May 518/1 The first year of study will be devoted primarily to..administration and practice, biostatistics, [etc.]. 1960 Jrnl. Med. Educ. 35 654/2 There is no longer any urgent reason why biostatistics should be identified with public health and preventive medicine. 1974 Nature 8 Nov. 178/2 I hope that this modest analysis will be instructive and entertaining to students of biostatistics. 1998 G. C. Fraser Afr. Amer. Midwifery in South i. i. 32 This local initiative encapsulated the complex dimensions of what would be the statewide campaign to monitor midwives and to establish a means of measuring the biostatistics of Virginia's African American and white populations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1865 |
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