section_path: Specialized disciplines
section_name: Specialized disciplines
paragraph_text: Specialized disciplines
  
  Statistical techniques are used in a wide range of types of scientific and social research, including: biostatistics, computational biology, computational sociology, network biology, social science, sociology and social research. Some fields of inquiry use applied statistics so extensively that they have specialized terminology. These disciplines include:
  
  In addition, there are particular types of statistical analysis that have also developed their own specialised terminology and methodology:
  
  Statistics form a key basis tool in business and manufacturing as well. It is used to understand measurement systems variability, control processes (as in statistical process control or SPC), for summarizing data, and to make data-driven decisions.