As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical statistics and public health data have become staples of newsfeeds worldwide, with infection rates, deaths, case fatality and the mysterious R figure featuring regularly. However, we don't all have the statistical background needed to translate this information into knowledge. In this lively account, Stephen Senn explains these statistical phenomena and demonstrates how statistics is essential to making rational decisions about medical care. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover developments of the last two decades and includes a new chapter on medical statistical challenges of COVID-19, along with additional material on infectious disease modelling and representation of women in clinical trials. Senn entertains with anecdotes, puzzles and paradoxes, while tackling big themes including: clinical trials and the development of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their risks or lack of them, smoking and lung cancer, and even the power of prayer.
Explains the vital importance of statistical and probabilistic reasoning in scientific medicine, for example in the MMR debate
Includes a brand new chapter on the statistics of COVID-19 and new material on the representation of women in clinical trials and on infectious disease modelling
Written in a humorous style, illustrating its complex themes with accounts of puzzling, paradoxical and potentially misleading phenomena
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