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News and Numbers 3e P

News and Numbers 3e P

Cohn

Paperback

Writing InstructionProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 1405160969
ISBN13: 9781405160964
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Oct 6 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Numbers and statistical claims dominate today's news. Politics, budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting all demand numbers. Now in its third edition, News & Numbers focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and politics. It does so by helping readers answer three key questions about all scientific studies, polls, and other statistical 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 this classic text up-to-date with the 21st century with a complete updating of examples, case studies, and stories. The text emphasises clear thinking and common sense approaches for understanding, analyzing and explaining statistics, and terms throughout the book are explained in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Much new material has been added to ensure the text maintains its pertinent approach to the subject, including:

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