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Know your chances : understanding health statistics / Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch.
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Title:Know your chances : understanding health statistics / Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch.
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Author/Creator:Woloshin, Steve.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Schwartz, Lisa M.
Welch, H. Gilbert.
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Published/Created:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WA900.1 .W65 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 04-15-2024
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WA900.1 .W65 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Health risk assessment--Popular works.
Medical statistics--Popular works.
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Description:142 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780520252226 (paper)
0520252225 (paper)
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Contents:Pt. 1. What Is My Risk?
1. Understanding Risk
2. Putting Risk in Perspective
3. Risk Charts: A Way to Get Perspective
Pt. 2. Can I Reduce My Risk?
4. Judging the Benefit of a Health Intervention
5. Not All Benefits Are Equal: Understand the Outcome
Pt. 3. Does Risk Reduction Have Downsides?
6. Consider the Downsides
7. Do the Benefits Outweigh the Downsides?
Pt. 4. Developing a Healthy Skepticism
8. Beware of Exaggerated Importance
9. Beware of Exaggerated Certainty
10. Who's Behind the Numbers?