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

Cohn, Victor; Cope, Lewis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444361880 ISBN 13 : 9781444361889

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Numbers and statistical claims dominate today′s news. Politics,budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting alldemand numbers. Now in its third edition, News & Numbersfocuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health,medicine, and politics. It does so by helping readers answer threekey questions about all scientific studies, polls, and otherstatistical 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 thisclassic text up–to–date with the 21st century with a completeupdating of examples, case studies, and stories. The textemphasises clear thinking and common sense approaches forunderstanding, analyzing and explaining statistics, and termsthroughout the book are explained in easy–to–understand,nontechnical language. Much new material has been added to ensurethe 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, includingupdates on President Obama′s health system overhaul & newmaterial on health care costs and quality

Biographie de l'auteur :

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

Lewis Cope was science writer at the Star Tribuneof Minneapolis–St. Paul for 29 years and, like Cohn, the recipientof numerous awards. Cope formerly served as president of theNational Association of Science Writers.

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444361880
• ISBN 13: 9781444361889
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 200