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Dicing with Death

By Stephen Senn

Dicing with Death

By Stephen Senn

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"As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical statistics and public health data have become staples of newsfeeds worldwide, with infection rates, deaths, case fatality and the mysterious R figure featuring regularly. However, we don't all have the statistical background needed to translate this information into knowledge. In this lively account, Stephen Senn explains these statistical phenomena and demonstrates how statistics is essential to making rational decisions about medical care. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover the developments of the last two decades and includes a new chapter on the medical statistical challenges of COVID-19, along with additional material on infectious disease modelling and the representation of women in clinical trials. Senn entertains with anecdotes, puzzles and paradoxes, while tackling big themes including: clinical trials and the development of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their risks or lack of them, smoking and lung cancer, and even the power of prayer"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2022-12-08
Publication Date:
2022-12-08
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1108999867
ISBN13:
9781108999861
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
494 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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