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.