Statistics is important to public health because they provide numbers to describe the health of the population. These statistics can be used to analyze and evaluate the diseases that are being studied to better provide comparisons, as well as, support the creation of programs that can aid in identifying prevention solutions. A medical test I have in mind is the prostate cancer diagnosis. I think it is more important for the test to be specific, which refers to how accurately a test identifies someone who do not have the disease because according to a study I read in my other class, it is often that men go through the test that is 85% accurate but still end up with either false positive or false negative results. The test can only identify around
