News & numbers a writer's guide to statistics /

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Autor principal: Cohn, Victor, 1919-2000
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Otros Autores: Cope, Lewis, 1934-, Cohn Runkle, Deborah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Where we can do better
  • Certainty of uncertainty
  • Testing the evidence
  • What's a good study
  • Your questions and peer review
  • A guide to the second half of news & numbers
  • Tests and drug trials
  • Vital statistics
  • Health costs, quality and insurance
  • Our environment
  • Writing about risks
  • Polls
  • Statistical savvy for many types of news
  • Epilogue.