News and Numbers (PDF)
A Writer's Guide to Statistics
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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,...
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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:
* A section on computer modelling
* Additional chapters on risks and 'missing numbers'
* Updated sections on health plans and insurance, including
updates on President Obama's health system overhaul & new
material on health care costs and quality
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:
* A section on computer modelling
* Additional chapters on risks and 'missing numbers'
* Updated sections on health plans and insurance, including
updates on President Obama's health system overhaul & new
material on health care costs and quality
Autoren-Porträt von Victor Cohn, Lewis Cope, Deborah Cohn Runkle
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 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Victor Cohn , Lewis Cope , Deborah Cohn Runkle
- 2011, 3. Auflage, 176 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1444344331
- ISBN-13: 9781444344332
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2011
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