Medical statistics

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Medical statistics deals with applications of biostatistics to medicine and the health sciences, including epidemiology, public health, forensic medicine, and clinical research.

Basic concepts

For describing situations
  • Incidence (epidemiology) vs. Prevalence vs. Cumulative incidence
  • Transmission rate vs. Force of infection
  • Mortality rate vs. Standardized mortality ratio vs. Age-standardized mortality rate
  • Pandemic vs. Epidemic vs. Endemic vs. Syndemic
  • Serial interval vs. Incubation period
  • Cancer cluster
  • Sexual network
  • Years of potential life lost

    • ;For assessing the effectiveness of an intervention
  • Absolute risk reduction
  • Control event rate
  • Experimental event rate
  • Number needed to harm
  • Number needed to treat
  • Odds ratio
  • Relative risk reduction
  • Relative risk
  • Relative survival

    • Related statistical theory

    • Survival analysis
    • Proportional hazards models

    See also

    Further reading

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