Role of Statistics for Decision-Making in Biostatistics

The purpose of this lesson is to outline a general process for the use of statistics in support of the decision-making process for biostatistics, where: In all, data scientists use their skills and expertise in statistics to investigate problems, with focus in this text on problems associated with the biological sciences using R. As shown in the ending materials for this specific lesson, speculation and conjecture are put aside and data are then subjected to statistical analysis so that outcomes are confirmed and then communicated with others, whether deans and supervisors, peer scientists, business leaders, policymakers, government officials, and the public.