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The study of biostatistics within the corpus of bioinformatics deals with the study of the collection, accumulation, experimentation and usage of data in order to make deductions in the field of biology. As a dynamic subject some of the topics taught in this subject are calculation of the significance of mean fat content obtained by different labs, morbidity indication, crude birth rate, age specific fertility rate, general fertility rate, measures of variation and the different commonly used measures of variation, Method of Maximum Likelihood and its properties, calculation of Arithmetic mean and mode, concepts of equally likely events, probability and conditional probability, mutually exclusive events, multiplication theorem, different types of classifications, the concept of central tendency and the various measures of central tendency, null and alternative hypothesis, the concept of binomial distribution and main properties of binomial distribution, standard deviation and the use of standard deviation in biostatistical analysis.