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'''Biostatistics''' (a [[portmanteau]]combination wordof madethe fromwords biology and statistics; sometimes referred to as '''biometry''' or '''biometrics''') is the application of [[statistics]] to a wide range of topics in [[biology]]. The science of biostatistics encompasses the design of biological experiments, especially in [[medicine]] and [[agriculture]]; the collection, summarization, and analysis of data from those experiments; and the interpretation of, and inference from, the results.
 
== Biostatistics and the history of biological thought ==