UID:
almafu_9960943424302883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Secondedition.
ISBN:
1-009-00301-1
,
1-009-00321-6
,
1-009-00018-7
Content:
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 developments of the last two decades and includes a new chapter on medical statistical challenges of COVID-19, along with additional material on infectious disease modelling and 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Permissions -- 1 Circling the Square -- 2 The Diceman Cometh -- 3 Trials of Life -- 4 Of Dice and Men -- 5 Sex and the Single Patient -- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters) -- 7 Time's Tables -- 8 A Dip in the Pool -- 9 The Things that Bug Us -- 10 The Law Is a Ass -- 11 The Empire of the Sum -- 12 Going Viral -- Notes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108999861
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Medicine
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009000185
