TY  - BOOK
AU  - Senn,Stephen
TI  - Dicing with death: chance, risk, and health 
SN  - 9780511543319 (ebook)
AV  - RA407 .S46 2003
U1  - 610/.7/27 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Medical statistics
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Statistical methods
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Circling the square -- The diceman cometh -- Trials of life -- Of dice and men -- Sex and the single patient -- A hale view of pills -- Time's tables -- A dip in the pool -- The things that bug us -- The law is a ass -- The empire of the sun
N2  - If you think that statistics has nothing to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are either wrong or in need of a more interesting job. Stephen Senn explains here how statistics determines many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources for health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He tackles big themes: clinical trials and the development of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their risks or lack of them, smoking and lung cancer and even the power of prayer. He entertains with puzzles and paradoxes and covers the lives of famous statistical pioneers. By the end of the book the reader will see how reasoning with probability is essential to making rational decisions in medicine, and how and when it can guide us when faced with choices that impact on our health and even life
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511543319
ER  -