عنوان

Dicing with death :

(Number (ISBN

0511078838

(Number (ISBN

0521540232

(Number (ISBN

0521832594

(Number (ISBN

9780511078835

(Number (ISBN

9780521540230

(Number (ISBN

9780521832595

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0521832594

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b737251

Title Proper

Dicing with death :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

chance, risk, and health /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Senn.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2003.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.

Text of Note

Circling the square -- The diceman cometh -- Trials of life -- Of dice and men -- Sex and the single patient -- A hale view of pills -- Time's tables -- A dip in the pool -- The things that bug us -- The law is a ass -- The empire of the sun.

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"Statisticians are engaged in exhausting but exhilarating struggle with the biggest challenge that philosophy makes to science: how do we translate information into knowledge? Statistics tells us how to evaluate evidence, how to design experiments, how to turn data into decisions, how much credence should be given to whom to what and why, how to reckon chances and when to take them. Statistics deals with the very essence of the universe: chance and contingency are its discourse and statisticians know the vocabulary. If you think that statistics has nothing to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are either wrong or in need of a more interesting job. Stephen Senn explains here how statistics determines many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources for health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He tackles big themes: 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. He entertains with puzzles and paradoxes and covers the lives of famous statistical pioneers. By the end of the book the reader will see how reasoning with probability is essential to making rational decisions in medicine, and how and when it can guide us when faced with choices that impact on our health and even life."--Jacket.

Title

Dicing with death.

International Standard Book Number

0521540232

Medical care-- Statistical methods.

Medical statistics.

Medicine-- Philosophy.

Medicine.

Models, Statistical.

Risk Assessment.

Statistics-- methods

MEDICAL-- Biostatistics.

Medical care-- Statistical methods.

Medical statistics.

Medicine-- Philosophy.

MED-- 090000

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Edition

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Book number

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Book Number

Senn, Stephen.

Date of Transaction

20201203222129.0

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pn

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[Book]

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