How To Make Sense Of Medical Statistics
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How To Make Sense Of Medical Statistics
Fri Jan 09 18:06:24 PST 2009
Relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat: medical research papers are loaded with confusing statistics. Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz, authors of the book Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics , talk about what those numbers mean. 
