Biostatistician

Job Description

A biostatistician is a type of statistician that uses information about public health and well-being to conduct clinical research into the effects and risk-factors of treatments. They collect, analyse and summarise data based on disease rates or genetics, for example, to produce statistics and conclusions about medicine and how it affects humans. These findings are then distributed to the scientific community or used within businesses to shape their products.Consider questions relating to the health of people and collect general information from databases or past studies Identify gaps in the data and design, implement and run clinical research trials to improve medical knowledge and produce new findings Analyse the collected information to determine the effectiveness and risk-factors of treatments on the human population based on various factors Work closely with subject experts such as cancer biologists or infectious disease specialists, as well as those conducting the clinical research Develop new methods or recommendations

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