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200 10$aNews & numbers$b[electronic resource] $ea writer's guide to statistics /$fVictor Cohn and Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle
205   $a3rd ed.
210   $aMalden $cWiley-Blackwell$d2012
215   $a1 online resource (199 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-4443-6188-0 
311   $a1-4051-6096-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aWhere 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.
330   $aNumbers 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
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