On the Convergence of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Data Science.

ABSTRACT: Epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science are broad disciplines that incorporate a variety of substantive areas. Common among them is a focus on quantitative approaches for solving intricate problems. When the substantive area is health and health care, the overlap is further cemented. Researchers in these disciplines are fluent in statistics, data management and analysis, and health and medicine, to name but a few competencies. Yet there are important and perhaps mutually exclusive attributes of these fields that warrant a tighter integration. For example, epidemiologists receive substantial training in the science of study design, measurement, and the art of causal inference. Biostatisticians are well versed in the theory and application of methodological techniques, as well as the d

SUBMITTER: Goldstein ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734556 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature