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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 11:06:12 MDT
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- From: vokey@HG.ULETH.CA
- Subject: Medical Statistics
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- In addition to a few good introductory stats books, I would encourage all
- physicians and others involved in the medical professions to read:
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- Skrabanek, P. & McCormick, J. Follies and fallacies in medicine, now published
- by Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-630-6.
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- Actually, it's a fun book for anyone to read, and it provides numerous
- examples of statistical follies for use in the classroom and as responses
- as to why you don't eat oat-bran, don't worry about lowering "risk" factors,
- and generally ignore most of the pronouncements of medical "experts". It
- also provides good reason to suspect that "epidemiology" is often a
- euphemism for ill-informed, badly-done, and silly.
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- John R. Vokey <vokey@hg.uleth.ca>
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