News & Numbers: A Writer’s Guide to Statistics - Rilegato

Cohn, Victor; Cope, Lewis; Runkle, Deborah Cohn

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ISBN 10: 1444361880 ISBN 13: 9781444361889

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2011

Riassunto

Numbers and statistical claims dominate today's news. Politics, budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting all demand numbers. Now in its third edition, News & Numbers focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics. It does so by helping readers answer three key questions about all scientific studies, polls, and other statistical claims: "What can I believe?" "What does it mean?" and "How can I explain it to others?"

Updated throughout, this long overdue third edition brings this classic text up-to-date with the 21st century with a complete updating of examples, case studies, and stories. The text emphasises clear thinking and common sense approaches for understanding, analyzing and explaining statistics, and terms throughout the book are explained in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Much new material has been added to ensure the text maintains its pertinent approach to the subject, including:

• A section on computer modelling
• Additional chapters on risks and 'missing numbers'
• Updated sections on health plans and insurance, including updates on President Obama's health system overhaul & new material on health care costs and quality

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Informazioni sull?autore

The late Victor Cohn, called the “Dean of Science Writers” was the prize-winning science editor and writer for The Washington Post for 25 years. He was cited as one of the top science writers by The New York Times and Newsweek, co-founded the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and served as president of the National Association of Science Writers.

Lewis Cope was science writer at the Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul for 29 years and, like Cohn, the recipient of numerous awards. Cope formerly served as president of the National Association of Science Writers.

Deborah Cohn Runkle is a Senior Program Associate at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Numbers and statistical claims dominate today’s news. Politics, budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting all demand numbers. Now in its third edition, News & Numbers focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics. It does so by helping readers answer three key questions about all scientific studies, polls, and other statistical claims: "What can I believe?” “What does it mean?” and "How can I explain it to others?"

Updated throughout, this long overdue third edition brings this classic text up-to-date with the 21st century with a complete updating of examples, case studies, and stories. The text emphasises clear thinking and common sense approaches for understanding, analyzing and explaining statistics, and terms throughout the book are explained in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Much new material has been added to ensure the text maintains its pertinent approach to the subject, including:

• A section on computer modelling
• Additional chapters on risks and ‘missing numbers’
• Updated sections on health plans and insurance, including updates on President Obama’s health system overhaul & new material on health care costs and quality

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1444361880
• ISBN 13: 9781444361889
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 181
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