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
11 - The Empire of the Sum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
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
The development of the MMR vaccine and the history of the study of the three diseases, measles, mumps and rubella, that it is designed to protect against are treated in this chapter as is the controversy attendant on the claim that it might be a cause of autism. The is taken as an example to illustrate the many statistical topics that have been developed throughout the book.
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- Dicing with DeathLiving by Data, pp. 234 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022