Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics

Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics
ISBN-10
0520252225
ISBN-13
9780520252226
Category
Medical
Pages
142
Language
English
Published
2008-11-30
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
H. Gilbert Welch, Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz

Description

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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