Tarihte Tıp ve Biyoistatistiğin Buluşması

Abstract

Today, statistics in health sciences, especially in the medical field are known to be indispensable. However, in some periods of scientists claiming mutually justified by them, medicine and statistics are not met, they argued as well that the majority of scientists are advocating the opposite. In this study, the time and history to reach biostatistics is indispensable, were investigated. In the period preceding the date based on the Old Testament, the first clinical trial conducted by Daniel the prophet is accepted that. In the 17th and 18th centuries laid the foundation of modern statistics, and then began to be used, especially in the health field. The rise of biostatistics in the 19th and 20th century is considered one of the most important developments in terms of humanity. With Sir Francis Galton and Karl Pearson's studies, statistics has been removed from being a social science, and turned into an applied science and data collection how important and statistics in medicine necessarily need to be used has been proven. Later, biostatistics and consequently the establishment of associations that uses a combination of medicine and biostatistics begin publication of articles with the importance of this issue has been fully realized. Today, the introduction of statistics that has been recognized that health is the scientific study and 1950's been around for years all over the world are taught as a compulsory subject in schools of medicine biostatistics.