Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

Epidemiology and biostatistics: fundamentals of research methodology

1Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Assam Medical College & Hospital, Dibrugarh, Assam, India

2Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Psychiatry, Assam Medical College & Hospital, Dibrugarh, Assam, India

3Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Psychiatry, Assam Medical College & Hospital, Dibrugarh, Assam, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Dhrubajyoti Bhuyan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Assam Medical College & Hospital, Barbari, Dibrugarh-786002, Assam, India. dr.dhrubajyoti@gmail.com

Online published on 14 January, 2016.

Abstract

Epidemiology and statistics is an essential modern science whose understanding now forms a base of any research in any form. Epidemiology deals with the distribution and determinants of health-related states, while biostatistics is considered to be important in implementing statistical knowledge into the biomedical sciences. We have tried to capture the basics and essence of epidemiology and biostatistics.

Keywords

Medical Sciences, Sampling, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials