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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457853603321
• Autore: Cohn Victor <1919-2000.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• ISBN: 1-4443-4434-X; 1-283-25835-8; 9786613258359; 1-4443-4433-1
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CopeLewis <1934->; Cohn RunkleDeborah
• Disciplina: 614.4/20727
• Soggetti: Public health; Environmental health; Vital statistics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Numbers and statistical claims dominate today's news. Politics, budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting all demand numbers. Now in its third edition, News & Numbers focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics. It does so by helping readers answer three key questions about all scientific studies, polls, and other statistical claims: ""What can I believe?"" ""What does it mean?"" and ""How can I explain it to others?"" Updated throughout, this long overdue third edition brings this classic text up-to-date with the 21st c