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_aRA407 _b.S46 2003 |
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_aSenn, Stephen, _eauthor. |
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_aDicing with death : _bchance, risk, and health / _cStephen Senn. |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2003. |
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_a1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aCircling 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. | |
| 520 | _aIf 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aMedical statistics. | |
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_aMedicine _xPhilosophy. |
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_aMedical care _xStatistical methods. |
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_iPrint version: _z9780521832595 |
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