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Biostatistics is a core population health science that deals with the use of statistics in describing and explaining health phenomena, health outcomes, and healthcare studies. Biostatistics in this way serves to facilitate the manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of such immense health data necessary for extracting useful patterns, hypotheses testing, and subsequent conclusions needed for the formulation of health policies and practices.

Biostatisticians deal with different forms of health data: clinical trial data, epidemiological data, or data from cross-sectional population surveys. Because clinical research seeks to generate accurate data and results, biostatistics is useful in directing experiments, determining the sample size that is appropriate, and analyzing the results of the trial. This highly statistical method explains the efficiency and safety of new drugs, treatments, and other interventional actions.

In public health, biostatistics helps in making sense of disease trends within communities. As such, biostatisticians can determine the association between variables thought to impact health, identify future trends as well as inspect preventive programs to gauge their viability. For instance, a comparison of the proportions of smokers and non-smokers who are diagnosed with lung cancer will give direction to campaigns and policies against smoking.

Biostatistics has been enlarged by modern trends in the field of machine learning and big data analytics. Due to these tools, big data questions can be posed and answered in ways that could not have been done before. The growth in health data necessitates the use of biostatistics in solving questions arising from genetics, individualized treatment, and communal health.

Moreover, biostatistics contributes to the statistical foundation for public health and assists researchers and policymakers in making several scientific choices to advance the health of a population. In other words, biostatistics enables us to improve the prevention and control of diseases; make efficient use of resources; and devise sound strategies for achieving improved population health.