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  • 5 - Sex and the Single Patient

  • Stephen Senn
  • Book:
    Dicing with Death
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 97-120

  • Summary

    The difficult issue of getting beyond averages when it comes to describing the effects of treatment is addressed. Are women essentially different from men in the way that treatment affects them? If so, how should trials be run to address this? The field of bioequivalence trials is described. These are used to show that generic drugs may safely be used instead of brand name innovator formulations. A claim that bioequivalance is different for women than for men is shown to be false.

  • 2 - The Diceman Cometh

  • Stephen Senn
  • Book:
    Dicing with Death
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 28-53

  • Summary

    An account is made of some early and more modern pioneers in probability and statistics. The purpose of this is not only to provide a historical account of the subject but also to breathe life into important statistical concepts that will appear throughout the book.

  • 7 - Time’s Tables

  • Stephen Senn
  • Book:
    Dicing with Death
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 135-156

  • Summary

    Medical statistics as it applies to money, in particular insured sums, is the topic of this chapter which covers the history of annuities and life insurance. The way that this topic has been adapted by medical statistics, in particular as a result of a landmark paper in 1972 by David Cox, is addressed.

  • 10 - The Law Is a Ass

  • Stephen Senn
  • Book:
    Dicing with Death
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 206-233

  • Summary

    Various statistical problems of assessing legal evidence are covered. Poisson's attempts to model the probability of a jury coming to the correct decision are considered. Various versions of the famous Island Problem and possible Bayesian solutions are covered in some detail.

  • 1 - Circling the Square

  • Stephen Senn
  • Book:
    Dicing with Death
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 1-27
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  • Summary

    The science of statistics is introduced, with the help of a number of illustrative stories and paradoxes.

  • 4 - Of Dice and Men*

  • Stephen Senn
  • Book:
    Dicing with Death
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 74-96

  • Summary

    A link is made between epistemology – that is to say, the philosophy of knowledge – and statistics. Hume's criticism of induction is covered, as is Popper's. Various philosophies of statistics are described.

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