News & numbers [electronic resource] : a writer's guide to statistics / Victor Cohn and Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xv, 181 pOther title:
  • News and numbers
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 614.4/20727 23
LOC classification:
  • RA407 .C64 2012eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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