What's the difference between biological and biostatistics?

Biological


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to biology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (3) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
  • (4) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (5) The lipid A moiety was shown to be responsible for this novel biological activity of the LPS molecule.
  • (6) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
  • (7) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
  • (8) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
  • (9) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
  • (10) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
  • (11) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (12) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
  • (13) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
  • (14) Thus, introduction of arginine in position 5 with a hydrophobic amino acid in position 6 is compatible with high potency in several biological systems and results in compounds with lowered potency to release histamine compared to homologous peptides with tyrosine in position 5 and D-arginine in position 6.
  • (15) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
  • (16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
  • (17) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
  • (18) That’s important, because Ebola is the Isis of biological agents .
  • (19) Men older than 75 showed a slightly higher mortality during the first year, but there were seemingly no relationships of tumor-biological or clinical significance between age at diagnosis and long-term relative survival.
  • (20) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.

Biostatistics


Definition:

  • (n.) Vital statistics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that a journal club is a powerful motivator of critical house-staff reading behavior and can help teach epidemiology and biostatistics to physicians-in-training.
  • (2) The USDA license requirements for present and future veterinary biologics remain essentially unchanged for acceptable rationale and biostatistically significant data establishing consistency of satisfactory production, purity, safety, efficacy and potency.
  • (3) Indeed, after carefully examining of the microbiological content of these lipsticks, their biostatistical efficiency was also determined.
  • (4) Since the dependent variable was time to greyout (failure), two contemporary biostatistical modeling procedures (proportional hazard and logistic discriminant function) were used to estimate risk, given a particular subject's profile.
  • (5) The people under study were the 490 students registered in the first year of Medicine and doing the Biostatistics course.
  • (6) Through a mailed survey, 588 leaders in CHN service and education identified the following as the most important to include in the core CHN curriculum: a practicum experience; epidemiology; community health assessment and diagnosis; administration and management, including public health administration, management theory, program planning and evaluation, financial management and budgeting, and quality assurance; research methods and biostatistics; health promotion and disease prevention; intervention at the aggregate level; and leadership theory.
  • (7) The iron balls technique was shown to be the method of choice with regard to biostatistical consistency.
  • (8) A Biostatistical Monitoring Committee was established to review periodically the procedures and performance of the data coordinating center of the National Cooperative Gallstone Study.
  • (9) To evaluate blood group (and HL-A) findings biostatistically, one uses the BAYES' Theorem with ESSEN-MOLLER's frequencies X and Y (in two-hypothesis cases).
  • (10) A possible accidental exchange of the child could be excluded by biostatistical calculations of the probabilities of motherhood, fatherhood and parenthood, and the descent from the parents was proven in both generations.
  • (11) The alleged father could not be excluded from the paternity in 25 additional blood group marker systems (biostatistical probability of paternity W greater than 99.75%).
  • (12) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.
  • (13) Nightingale proposed widespread changes in the reporting of military health status and biostatistics, in sanitary engineering, and in self-care activities.
  • (14) "Ultimately, it would be very exciting to develop therapy interventions to reset the clock and hopefully keep us young," said Steve Horvath , professor of genetics and biostatistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.
  • (15) In the biostatistical evaluation of the results of examinations of blood-groups the role of the ADA system seems to be important.
  • (16) Medical students and doctors need training in biostatistics.
  • (17) We performed a prospective controlled trial of a monthly journal club to determine if it would increase pediatric residents' knowledge of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
  • (18) Modern imaging techniques, methodology, and biostatistics have identified risk factors and refined clinical trials such that we question all previous studies of stroke management.
  • (19) In criminal cases a DNA-profile derived from four single-locus probes always leads to a very high value of discrimination and in paternity testing the probability of paternity always exceeds 99.9% regardless to the reference population used for biostatistical evaluation.
  • (20) The methodological survey below reviews the present state of this development and is intended to promote further research into biostatistical issues and methods of analysis.

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