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• Statistics also plays a vital role in all the phases of research starting from the planning to the policy making.

BioStatistics is • The use of statistical tools for the data that is derived from biological sciences and medicine.

• Bio-statistical methods were used in the ancient civilizations like Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, India and China. • One of the earliest known demographic / Bio-statistics study was conducted by John Graunt (1662). He developed life tables to warn off the onset and spread of Bubonic plague in London.

• The Lady with a Lamp (1820 – 1910) • One of the early known Statistician who not only used statistical methodologies to detect the causes of deaths of British soldiers during Crimean War but also convinced Queen for evidence based policy making to provide better sanitary conditions for soldiers. • Sir Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962) • A Bio-Statistician • Evolutionary Biologist • Geneticist • He developed Statistical Methodologies to combine Mendelian Genetics and natural selection. • Famously known as “ Father of Modern Statistical sciences”.

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Public Health Pharmacology Epidemiology Medicine Genetics Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics etc etc