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    <title>News &amp; numbers</title>
    <subTitle>a writer's guide to statistics</subTitle>
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    <title>News and numbers</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cohn, Victor</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cope, Lewis</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cohn Runkle, Deborah.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Wiley-Blackwell</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>181 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Where we can do better -- Certainty of uncertainty -- Testing the evidence -- What's a good study -- Your questions and peer review -- a guide to the second half of news &amp; numbers -- Tests and drug trials -- Vital statistics -- Health costs, quality and insurance -- Our environment -- Writing about risks -- Polls -- Statistical savvy for many types of news -- Epilogue.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>HKBU library</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Victor Cohn, Lewis Cope ; with Deborah Cohn Runkle.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M09</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Public health</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Environmental health</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Vital statistics</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">RA407 C678 N 2012</classification>
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