On 19 Nov 2001 20:56:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A.J. Rossini) wrote: > >>>>> "RS" == Richard Seymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RS> And if I may muddy the waters even more, what is the > RS> difference between biostatistics and biometry? Dick > > Depends on which definition of "biometry" you are using. One > definition used to be an older name for what is now biostatistics (and > what might again become biometry, according to how some in the field > want to rename it again to make it more relevant to measurement and > design). That's a nice murky response, which shows how our language > is ill-defined. > > There are other definitions, which have little to do with statistics.
I was a little startled by my google search. "Definition of biometry" gets the Cornell Department of Biometrics, and a couple of other things, among only 6 hits. "Definition of biometrics" returns dozens of references to security systems, fingerprints and retinal scans, etc. That is a definition that seems to be winning out, owing to its new, computerized, commercial potential. There were no hits that would make me think of the journal named Biometrika, which I remember as being highly mathematical. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
