News & numbers
Cohn, Victor, 1919-2000.
News & numbers a writer's guide to statistics / [electronic resource] : News and numbers Victor Cohn and Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle. - 3rd ed. - Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - xv, 181 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Public health--Statistics.
Environmental health--Statistics.
Vital statistics.
Electronic books.
RA407 / .C64 2012eb
614.4/20727
News & numbers a writer's guide to statistics / [electronic resource] : News and numbers Victor Cohn and Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle. - 3rd ed. - Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - xv, 181 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Public health--Statistics.
Environmental health--Statistics.
Vital statistics.
Electronic books.
RA407 / .C64 2012eb
614.4/20727