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9780470671344: News and Numbers: A Writer's Guide to Statistics

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The third edition of News & Numbers is a clear and comprehensively updated introduction to the role, logic and language of statistics which focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics.* Includes new sections on computer modelling, missing numbers, health care quality and its costs and risks * Features a completely new chapter on reporting on risk* Contains additional and updated examples throughout* Illustrates how an understanding of statistics can help in writing about business, education, environmental policy, sports, opinion polls, crime and other topics* Focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics

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À propos de l?auteur

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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9781405160964: News & Numbers: A Writers Guide to Statistics

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ISBN 10 :  1405160969 ISBN 13 :  9781405160964
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
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