Describing risk

Stats Chat 2013-04-03

Summary:

From “Decision Science News”, a post on communicating risks to the general public (eg, in newspapers)   They give a list of approaches to use less often (relative risks, single-event probabilities as fractions, conditional probabilities) and approaches to use more often (frequencies with an explicit reference group). They don’t mention David Spiegelhalters ‘micromorts‘, or the useful [...]

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StatsChat/~3/8VLOgwOLH4w/

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general

Authors:

Thomas Lumley

Date tagged:

04/03/2013, 21:50

Date published:

04/03/2013, 18:05