News & numbers : a writer's guide to statistics / / Victor Cohn and Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle.
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Cohn, Victor, 1919-2000. News & numbers [electronic resource] : a writer's guide to statistics / Victor Cohn and Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle. News and numbers 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Environmental health Statistics. Public health Statistics. Vital statistics. Electronic books. Cohn Runkle, Deborah. Cope, Lewis, 1934- ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=7104623 Click to View |
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xv, 181 p. |
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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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