Armitage P
Biometrics. 1985 Dec;41(4):823-33.
The "biometric school" founded by K. Pearson, F. Galton, and W. F. R. Weldon was concerned especially with heredity and variation, and between the wars "biometry" was not widely used as a general term for quantitative biology. The foundation of the Biometric Society encouraged this wider usage, and medical and biological statistics were seen to share a common methodology. In recent years, medical statistics has developed more rapidly, and this growth has been reflected in the contents of Biometrics. The author stresses the essential unity of the subject, the central core of which is the application of statistics in the life sciences. The Society should encourage contact with those workers in quantitative biology who are outside this central tradition.
由K. 皮尔逊、F. 高尔顿和W. F. R. 韦尔登创立的“生物统计学派”尤其关注遗传与变异，在两次世界大战期间，“生物统计学”并未被广泛用作定量生物学的通用术语。生物统计学会的成立推动了这一术语更广泛的使用，人们认为医学和生物统计学有着共同的方法。近年来，医学统计学发展更为迅速，这种发展也反映在了《生物统计学》的内容中。作者强调了该学科的本质统一性，其核心是统计学在生命科学中的应用。学会应鼓励与处于这一核心传统之外的定量生物学工作者进行交流。
