Book contents
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
Book contents
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Summarizing results from many studies has a long history and is currently a hot topic, largely as a result of the Evidence Based Medicine movement. This is treated in this chapter, starting with an early attempt by Karl Pearson at the beginning of the twentieth century. The statistical techniques of meta-analysis are described, as is the Cochrane Collaboration and its programme of summarizing results from clinical trials.
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- Dicing with DeathLiving by Data, pp. 157 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022