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- catalog abstract "The author 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 our health and/or life.".
- catalog contributor b13042336.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index.".
- catalog description "The author 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 our health and/or life.".
- catalog extent "xii, 251 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521540232 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0521832594".
- catalog identifier "9780521540230 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "2003 O-010".
- catalog subject "610/.7/27 21".
- catalog subject "Medical care Statistical methods.".
- catalog subject "Medical statistics.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Models, Statistical.".
- catalog subject "RA407 .S46 2003".
- catalog subject "Risk Assessment.".
- catalog subject "Statistics as Topic methods.".
- catalog subject "Statistics methods.".
- catalog subject "WA 950 S478d 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Dicing with death : chance, risk and health / Stephen Senn.".
- catalog type "text".