Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Health Statistics in Drug Marketing

Toxic tort litigators are used to hearing about the uses and abuses of statistics on relative risk. Comes now a piece in Slate on the misleading use of relative risk numbers in drug marketing.

posted by pn at 12:41 AM  

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Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.