Using the tools of statistics, biostatistics help answer pressing research questions in medicine, biology and public health, such as whether a new drug works, what causes cancer and other diseases, and how long a person with a certain illness is likely to survive. Biostatistics is central to all of science, because science needs that gathering of evidence and the evaluation of that evidence to make a judgment.
The department of Public Health Dentistry conducts a value-added program every year for the first year post graduate students to educate them about data, its types, the tests of significance, their uses and application. This enables them in their thesis and also in the short studies that the post graduates conduct during their academic program.