Dicing With Death - Living By Data

List of contents

1. Circling the square; 2. The diceman cometh; 3. Trials of life; 4. Of dice and men; 5. Sex and the single patient; 6. A hale view of pills (and other matters); 7. Time's tables; 8. A dip in the pool; 9. The things that bug us; 10. The law is a ass; 11. The empire of the sum; 12. Going viral; Notes; Index.

About the author

Stephen Senn has worked as a statistician and as an academic in Switzerland, Scotland, England and Luxembourg. He is the author of Statistical Issues in Drug Development (1997, 2007, 2021) and Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research (1993, 2002). He was awarded the Bradford Hill Medal of the Royal Statistical Society in 2009 and holds honorary chairs at the University of Sheffield and at the University of Edinburgh.

Summary

From measles to malaria, from clinical trials to COVID and from life tables to the law, the second edition of Dicing with Death explains how the vital decisions we have to make both individually and collectively can be informed and improved by good data, statistical reasoning and analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Senn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9781108999861
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99986-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Epidemiology & medical statistics, Law, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Probability & statistics, Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular mathematics, Probability and statistics, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general, Epidemiology and Medical statistics