News and numbers

News and numbers: a writer's guide to statistics

by Cohn, Victor

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Title Statements

  • Full title :News and numbers : a writer's guide to statistics / by Victor Cohn, Lewis Cope.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.
  • Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
  • Place of Publication:Oxford
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781444344332, 1444344331, 9781444344349, 144434434X
  • oclc:ocn756582698
  • LC Classification:RA407
  • Dewey Decimal:362.1/021

Table of 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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Subjects

Environmental Health Environmental health -- Statistics public health Public health -- Statistics Santé publique -- Statistiques Statistics Vital statistics

Writers

Cohn, Victor Cope, Lewis

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