Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare [Kindle Edition]
Author: Howard Wainer | Language: English | ISBN: B00FB6A2LU | Format: PDF, EPUB
Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
Download Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?
The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from the diminishing value of mammograms to how to decide if a hip needs to be replaced, to understanding cancer maps. In each case it illustrates how modern tools of statistical thinking and statistical graphics can illuminate our understanding.
The goals are to solve some vexing problems that seem perplexing, and to make both the problems and their solutions clear to a non-technical audience. The aim is to ignite in the reader an understanding of statistical thinking, which, though subtle, can be learned without going through arcane mathematics. And, moreover, that learning about how to think in this way provides a huge payoff in the deeper understanding of our complex world. Direct download links available for Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
Download Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?
The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from the diminishing value of mammograms to how to decide if a hip needs to be replaced, to understanding cancer maps. In each case it illustrates how modern tools of statistical thinking and statistical graphics can illuminate our understanding.
The goals are to solve some vexing problems that seem perplexing, and to make both the problems and their solutions clear to a non-technical audience. The aim is to ignite in the reader an understanding of statistical thinking, which, though subtle, can be learned without going through arcane mathematics. And, moreover, that learning about how to think in this way provides a huge payoff in the deeper understanding of our complex world. Direct download links available for Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
- File Size: 10394 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1 edition (September 20, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FB6A2LU
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #628,326 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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