Biostatistician Andrew Vickers, a cancer researcher, uses math and the latest research to help the doctors at the hospital where he works do their best for their patients. When has a doctor helped …
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Biostatistician
According to Cancer Researcher Andrew Vickers, statistics involves “turning data into knowledge.” Statisticians use math to help them gather, understand, and explain data (huge groups of numbers) about all sorts of different topics, from how well a soccer team or a baseball player did last season to how well a surgeon helps patients recover from an illness. The “bio” in biostatistics refers to life. Biostatisticians like Andrew Vickers work with data related to living beings.
