Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare Hardcover – January 2, 2014
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"Medical Illuminations offers ample substance along with sufficient piquant comments to ensure that readers reflect on every sentence. ... Wainer's inspirational set of commentaries on medical applications for statistics and visualization delivers meaningful lessons for beginners and experts. I highly recommend it." --Science
Howard Wainer, Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners
Howard Wainer is a statistician and author; Medical Illuminations is his 20th book. His first two medical books (technical works in pediatrics) were published almost 40 years ago. He has been working primarily on medical topics since 2001 as the Distinguished Research Scientist of the National Board of Medical Examiners. At various times in his career he has taught at Princeton, The University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He has a PhD from Princeton and is a fellow in the American Statistical Association and the American Educational Research Association. He has been the recipient of many awards for his broad ranging research and has served internationally on many editorial boards of leading statistical journals as well as a consultant to both government and industry. He has also written a column in the magazine Chance since 1990.
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"Medical Illuminations offers ample substance along with sufficient piquant comments to ensure that readers reflect on every sentence. ... Wainer's inspirational set of commentaries on medical applications for statistics and visualization delivers meaningful lessons for beginners and experts. I highly recommend it." --Science
About the Author
Howard Wainer, Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners
Howard Wainer is a statistician and author; Medical Illuminations is his 20th book. His first two medical books (technical works in pediatrics) were published almost 40 years ago. He has been working primarily on medical topics since 2001 as the Distinguished Research Scientist of the National Board of Medical Examiners. At various times in his career he has taught at Princeton, The University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He has a PhD from Princeton and is a fellow in the American Statistical Association and the American Educational Research Association. He has been the recipient of many awards for his broad ranging research and has served internationally on many editorial boards of leading statistical journals as well as a consultant to both government and industry. He has also written a column in the magazine Chance since 1990.
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- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (January 2, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199668795
- ISBN-13: 978-0199668793
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #704,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
As author of some twenty noteworthy books and innumerable articles, Howard Wainer can be considered the foremost current authority on the graphical representation of statistical data, a crucial field in modern information processing and display. His most recent work, Medical Illuminations, is, in my view, the most important of all and imperative reading for anyone interested in the management of healthcare information...and who isn’t or shouldn’t be, especially as we enter a new era of Healthcare options? For the expert faced with preparing charts for private electronic records or public display on the internet and all manner of print media as well as for the patient determined to decipher them, Medical Illuminations is a must read, a book that will cause you to rethink old assumptions and formulate new ones based less on convention than on evidence, informed by an enlightening reevaluation of the statistical, visual, and verbal expression of data. The range of topics is incredibly wide--running from cancer detection and diabetes monitoring to hip-surgery choices and psychiatric evaluation-- and the lessons are universal, highlighted visually by bulleted, numbered, italicized principles. Moreover and most of all, the book is as enjoyable to read as it is informative. Wainer is as much an engaging humanist as he is an accomplished scientist, drawing on metaphor and analogy to verbally illuminate his statistical demonstrations and visual displays and sprinkling his own lucid prose with quotes and quips from others sources, such as Will Rogers‘s adage applied to misleading data displays: “What we don’t know won’t hurt us, it’s what we do know that ain’t.
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