Tarter M E
Biometrics. 1979 Mar;35(1):9-24.
The role of "methodology", as distinguished from "theory" and "application", is discussed and illustrated. It is argued that research in the biomedical sciences is moving towards a degree of complexity different in both kind and extent from that usually encountered in other disciplines. Certain biocomputational methodology can be viewed as a bridge between the data forms commonly encountered in biomedicine, and the statistical and computational machinery which had previously been developed to deal with physical science information. Examples are given of three promising research subareas, all of which concern methods for dealing with highly complex forms of health and medical data.
本文讨论并举例说明了“方法论”相对于“理论”和“应用”的作用。有人认为，生物医学科学研究正朝着一种复杂性程度发展，这种复杂性在种类和程度上与其他学科通常遇到的情况不同。某些生物计算方法可以被视为生物医学中常见数据形式与先前为处理物理科学信息而开发的统计和计算机制之间的桥梁。文中给出了三个有前景的研究子领域的例子，所有这些子领域都涉及处理高度复杂的健康和医学数据的方法。
