Dicing with death :: chance, risk, and health /
"Statisticians are engaged in exhausting but exhilarating struggle with the biggest challenge that philosophy makes to science: how do we translate information into knowledge? Statistics tells us how to evaluate evidence, how to design experiments, how to turn data into decisions, how much cred...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Statisticians are engaged in exhausting but exhilarating struggle with the biggest challenge that philosophy makes to science: how do we translate information into knowledge? Statistics tells us how to evaluate evidence, how to design experiments, how to turn data into decisions, how much credence should be given to whom to what and why, how to reckon chances and when to take them. Statistics deals with the very essence of the universe: chance and contingency are its discourse and statisticians know the vocabulary. 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."--Jacket. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. |
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| spelling | Senn, Stephen. Dicing with death : chance, risk, and health / Stephen Senn. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. 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. Print version record. "Statisticians are engaged in exhausting but exhilarating struggle with the biggest challenge that philosophy makes to science: how do we translate information into knowledge? Statistics tells us how to evaluate evidence, how to design experiments, how to turn data into decisions, how much credence should be given to whom to what and why, how to reckon chances and when to take them. Statistics deals with the very essence of the universe: chance and contingency are its discourse and statisticians know the vocabulary. 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."--Jacket. Medical statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083031 Medicine Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083087 Medical care Statistical methods. Risk assessment. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002638 Medicine Statistics methods Models, Statistical Risk Assessment Philosophy, Medical https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010686 Médecine Philosophie. Évaluation du risque. Soins médicaux Méthodes statistiques. risk assessment. aat MEDICAL Biostatistics. bisacsh Risk assessment fast Medical care Statistical methods fast Medical statistics fast Medicine Philosophy fast Electronic book. Electronic books. Print version: Senn, Stephen. Dicing with death. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521832594 0521540232 (DLC) 2003053199 (OCoLC)52301632 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=125153 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Senn, Stephen Dicing with death : chance, risk, and health / 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. Medical statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083031 Medicine Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083087 Medical care Statistical methods. Risk assessment. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002638 Medicine Statistics methods Models, Statistical Risk Assessment Philosophy, Medical https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010686 Médecine Philosophie. Évaluation du risque. Soins médicaux Méthodes statistiques. risk assessment. aat MEDICAL Biostatistics. bisacsh Risk assessment fast Medical care Statistical methods fast Medical statistics fast Medicine Philosophy fast |
| subject_GND | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083031 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083087 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002638 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010686 |
| title | Dicing with death : chance, risk, and health / |
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| title_full | Dicing with death : chance, risk, and health / Stephen Senn. |
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| topic | Medical statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083031 Medicine Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083087 Medical care Statistical methods. Risk assessment. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002638 Medicine Statistics methods Models, Statistical Risk Assessment Philosophy, Medical https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010686 Médecine Philosophie. Évaluation du risque. Soins médicaux Méthodes statistiques. risk assessment. aat MEDICAL Biostatistics. bisacsh Risk assessment fast Medical care Statistical methods fast Medical statistics fast Medicine Philosophy fast |
| topic_facet | Medical statistics. Medicine Philosophy. Medical care Statistical methods. Risk assessment. Medicine Statistics methods Models, Statistical Risk Assessment Philosophy, Medical Médecine Philosophie. Évaluation du risque. Soins médicaux Méthodes statistiques. risk assessment. MEDICAL Biostatistics. Risk assessment Medical care Statistical methods Medical statistics Medicine Philosophy Electronic book. Electronic books. |
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