do you just use maths and statistics to find out diseases or do you use other methods?

Question: do you just use maths and statistics to find out diseases or do you use other methods?
- Keywords:
  disease,
  maths,
  statistics
Asked by leonie white to Liz on 13 Jun 2017.
- Liz Buckingham-Jeffery answered on 13 Jun 2017:
  
  I mostly just use maths and statistics. I also write computer programmes, and make graphs to look at data and results.
  
  But there are so, so, so many different kinds of maths and different statistical methods I can use! And people are always inventing better methods as well.

Question: do you just use maths and statistics to find out diseases or do you use other methods?