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    Biostatistics is the application of statistics in medical research. It involves collecting data from samples of populations and organizing the data into variables that can be qualitative like gender or quantitative like height. Qualitative variables are either nominal meaning they are categories without order, or ordinal meaning they can be ranked. Quantitative variables can be either discrete taking on certain values or continuous assuming any value in a range. Different statistical methods are used depending on the type of variable.

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    ‫ناهد الجميلي‬.

    ‫د‬
    ‫االحصاء الحيوي‬
    Biostatistics
    Statistics is a field of study concerned with collection, organization, summarization
    and analysis of data.

    Biostatistics is the application of statistics in medical research.

    Terms in Biostatistics

    • Data: – all the information we collect to answer the research question


    ‫متغير‬،‫عامل‬
     A variable: It is a characteristic that takes on different values in different
    persons, places, or things. For example: - heart rate, the heights of adult
    ‫ما قبل املدرسة‬
    males, the weights of preschool children, the ages of patients seen in a dental
    ‫عيادة‬
    clinic.
    • Population: – is the entire group of individuals you want to study
    • Sample: – a subset of the population for which data are collected

    It is helpful to divide variables into different types; as different statistical methods


    ‫املعمول بها‬ ‫شكل‬
    are applicable to each. The main division is into qualitative (or categorical) or
    quantitative (or numerical variables).

    Types of variables:
    1- Quantitative variables: It can be measured in the usual sense. For example: -
    the heights and the weights.

    2- Qualitative variables: Many characteristics are not capable of being measured.


    ‫ترتيبي‬
    Some of them can be ordered (called ordinal) and Some of them can’t be ordered
    ‫اسمي صوري شكلي باالسم فقط‬ ‫اجتماعية واقتصادية‬
    (called nominal). For example: - classification of people into socioeconomic
    groups, hair color

    Types of quantitative variables:


    ‫انقطاعات‬
    1-Discrete variables: is characterized by gaps or interruptions in the values that it
    ‫الدخول اليومي‬
    can assume.e.g: The number of daily admissions to a general hospital.
    ‫ذو صلة‬
    2- Continuous variables: can assume any value within a specified relevant
    ‫فاصل زمني‬
    interval of values assumed by the variable. For example: - Height, - weight, - skull
    ‫بغض النظر‬
    circumference. No matter how close together the observed heights of two
    people, we can find another person whose height falls somewhere in between.

    Types of qualitative variables:

    1-Nominal: As the name implies it consist of “naming” or classifies into various


    ‫متبادل‬
    mutually exclusive categories for example: - Male - female - Sick - well - Married –
    ‫مطلقة‬
    single – divorced.
    ‫ترتب‬
    2- Ordinal: Whenever qualitative observation Can be ranked or ordered
    ‫املعايير‬
    according to some criteria. For example: - Blood pressure (high-good-low) -
    ‫درجات‬ ‫ممتاز‬
    Grades (Excellent – V.good –good –fail). The spaces or intervals between the
    categories are not necessarily equal.

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