Biostatistics Concepts for Clinicians

Probability and statistics are employed daily in our clinical practice for several tasks, including explaining risk thresholds to patients, providing clinical recommendations, understanding scientific publications, and writing investigation papers, which require analyzing numerical data and recommending treatment choices. Biostatistics is a synthesis of theory and practice, representing the experience of modeling biological and medical phenomena. The development of the future generation of biostatistical scientists in many areas of medical science can meet and incorporate several of these issues. The biostatistical minimum, or minimum understanding of biostatistics, should include the elements of biostatistics that clinicians should be familiar with to correctly interpret clinical research findings. Understanding p-values, confidence intervals, Student’s t-tests, the chi-square test, and other tests, as well as ANOVA and basic statistical models, are thus essential.