Book contents
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
Book contents
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
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.
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- Dicing with DeathLiving by Data, pp. 135 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022