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Medical statistics deals with applications of statistics to medicine and the health sciences, including epidemiology, public health, forensic medicine, and clinical research. Medical statistics has been a recognized branch of statistics in the United Kingdom for more than 40 years but the term has not come into general use in North America, where the wider term 'biostatistics' is more commonly used.〔Dodge, Y. (2003) ''The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms'', OUP. ISBN 0-19-850994-4〕 However, "biostatistics" more commonly connotes all applications of statistics to biology.〔 Medical Statistics are a sub discipline of Statistics. "It is the science of summarizing, collecting, presenting and interpreting data in medical practice, and using them to estimate the magnitude of associations and test hypotheses. It has a central role in medical investigations. It not only provides a way of organizing information on a wider and more formal basis than relying on the exchange of anecdotes and personal experience, but also takes into account the intrinsic variation inherent in most biological processes." ==Pharmaceutical statistics== Pharmaceutical statistics is the application of statistics to matters concerning the pharmaceutical industry. This can be from issues of design of experiments, to analysis of drug trials, to issues of commercialization of a medicine. There are many professional bodies concerned with this field including: * European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (EFSPI) * Statisticians In The Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) There are also journals including: * ''Statistics in Medicine'' * ''Pharmaceutical Statistics'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「medical statistics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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