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Know your chances : understanding health statistics / Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: 142 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780520252226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520252225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4/2 22
LOC classification:
  • RA427.3 .W65 2008
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Contents:
Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?
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Books Books WHO HQ BORROWABLE-COLL-STACKS WA 950 2008WO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00059480

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137) and index.

Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?

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