Dicing with Death: Living by Data

Stephen Senn

$24.99

Publication Date: December 8th, 2022

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISBN:

9781108999861

Pages:

338

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From measles to malaria, from clinical trials to COVID and from life tables to the law, the second edition of Dicing with Death explains how the vital decisions we have to make both individually and collectively can be informed and improved by good data, statistical reasoning and analysis.

Dicing with Death: Living by Data

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