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Statistics and risk - what’s my heart age?

Statistics and risk - what’s my heart age?

FromHeart podcast


Statistics and risk - what’s my heart age?

FromHeart podcast

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
May 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by eminent statistician Professor David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University. They discuss how we can better communicate medical risks to our patients, why the p-value may have had its day and how we should evaluate medical AI before using it in daily practice.

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Link to David’s website and his book on the art of statistics :

https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/

https://amzn.to/2TQyhSb
Released:
May 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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