Originally posted by ligand:
•My brother is a Biostatistics major. It seems like something that could be applied to public health very easily. If I were more of a mathematical person, I would definantly take it.
Most schools have biostatistics? How many have biostats majors, I was wondering...?
My opinion is that you should definantly take a statistics class if you are ever going to be reading over results sections of primary studies. A lack of statistics knowledge is a lack of a very important skill- it's a lot more handier than Calculus...•••
@ my school, they require all biology majors to take biostats. It's not *that* bad. I'm not a stats person (I was more into the engineering maths), but I found it to be not so bad. You should take it if you have the chance. Now I'm taking a grad course in Epidemiology, and the fundamental understanding of biostats (senior level) is very very useful in this class.
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