Know your chances
Subtitle: understanding health statistics
By: Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, H. Gilbert Welch.
Contributors: Schwartz, Lisa M.; Welch, H. Gilbert.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780520252226
Subjects: Health risk assessment -- Popular works; Medical statistics -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Description: The goal of this book is to help you better understand health information by teaching you about the numbers behind the messages--the medical statistics on which the claims are based. The book will also familiarize you with risk charts, which are designed to help you put your health concerns in perspective. By learning to understand the numbers and knowing what questions to ask, you'll be able to see through the hype and find the credible information--if any--that remains.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.