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Book Title
Dicing with Death (Living by Data)
ISBN
9781108999861

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108999867
ISBN-13
9781108999861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057254638

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
Xvi, 322 Pages
Publication Name
Dicing with Death : Living by Data
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Public Health, Probability & Statistics / General
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Medical
Author
Stephen Senn
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-024075
Reviews
'The COVID pandemic has shown the power of statistics to save millions of lives by revealing 'what works'. Yet statistical methods have a deeply controversial history, and provoke sometimes bitter debate to this day. Professor Stephen Senn is renowned for his brilliant insights on the subject, and in Dicing with Death he offers us a series of fascinating journeys through its vast and varied landscape.' Robert Matthews, Visiting Professor Aston University and author of Chancing It: The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
610.727
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
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., From measles to malaria, from clinical trials to COVID and from life tables to the law, the second edition of Dicing with Death explains how the vital decisions we have to make both individually and collectively can be informed and improved by good data, statistical reasoning and analysis.
LC Classification Number
RA407.S46 2023

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