This document provides definitions and concepts related to biostatistics. It defines statistics as the science of collecting, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing data to draw inferences. There are two main types of data: data from measurements and data from counts. Variables can be quantitative and measured numerically or qualitative and categorized. Variables are also classified as random, continuous, discrete, independent, or dependent. The document outlines common sampling methods like simple random sampling, systematic sampling, and stratified sampling to select samples from populations.