Statistics and risk - what’s my heart age?

Heart Podcast

English - May 06, 2019 13:11 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
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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