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Biostatistics Primer: Part 2
Author(s) -
Overholser Brian R.,
Sowinski Kevin M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/011542650802300176
Subject(s) - biostatistics , medicine , descriptive statistics , statistical inference , statistics , statistical hypothesis testing , sample size determination , data science , public health , computer science , pathology , mathematics
Biostatistics is the application of statistics to biologic data. This article is the second part of a 2‐part series on the application of statistics in nutrition science. The first article, published in the December 2007 issue, reviewed descriptive statistics. Inferential statistics, to be discussed in this article, can be used to make predictions based on a sample obtained from a population or some large body of information. It is these inferences that are used to test specific research hypotheses. This article focuses on inferential statistics and their application in the nutrition and biomedical literature. Additionally, this review will outline some of the most commonly used statistical tests found in the biomedical literature.