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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521540230
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 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.
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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 sum
Notes
Index
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