Probability Without Equations: Concepts for Clinicians

by Bart K. Holland

Book Overview

An award-winning teacher gives a non-technical explanation of the probability and statistics needed by physicians to interpret laboratory results.

Although few physicians, nurses, dentists, and other health professionals perform laboratory tests themselves, they all need to be able to interpret the results as well as understand findings reported in the medical literature. A general understanding of probability and statistics is essential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801857600
• ISBN13: 9780801857607
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A GREAT BOOK TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF "ALPHA LEVELS"

I think this is the only book I have come across which explains the meaning of "alpha levels" so clearly. The author's example of flipping a two-headed coin (without revealing to his students that it is two-headed), observing their reactions as "the number of heads keep going up" and finally explaining that "different students had different alpha levels" could'nt have brought out the meaning of this term in a more better way !