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News & numbers : a writer's guide to statistics / Victor Cohn, Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xv, 181 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780470671344 (hbk.)
  • 9781405160964 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • News and numbers
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.420727 COH 2012
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.