Textbook Discounter: Medicine: Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health

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Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health
	Author: Stephen Senn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$33.99~~ Buy New: $24.89 You Save: $9.10 (27%) New (18) Used (7) from $24.63 Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 347097 Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 264 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 ISBN: 0521540232 Dewey Decimal Number: 610.727 EAN: 9780521540230 ASIN: 0521540232 Publication Date: November 24, 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description 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/or life. Stephen Senn has been a Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Statistics at the University College of London since 1995. In 2001 he won George C. Challis Award of the University of Florida for contributions to biostatistics. Senn's previous two books are Statistical Issues in Drug Development (Wiley, 1997) and Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research (Wiley, 1993). He is the member of seven editorial boards including Statistics in Medicine and Pharmaceutical Statistics. Book Description Stephen Senn explains 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 shows why reasoning with probability is essential to making rational decisions in medicine, and how it guides us when faced with choices that affect our health and even life.