![]() For rare events, the Peto method has been observed to be less biased and more powerful than other methods. Studies with no events contribute no information about the risk ratio or odds ratio. Most meta-analysis methods are variations on a weighted average of the effect estimates from the different studies. ![]() dichotomous, continuous) that result from measurement of an outcome in an individual study, and to choose suitable effect measures for comparing intervention groups. It is important to be familiar with the type of data (e.g. However, they also have the potential to mislead seriously, particularly if specific study designs, within-study biases, variation across studies, and reporting biases are not carefully considered. Potential advantages of meta-analyses include an improvement in precision, the ability to answer questions not posed by individual studies, and the opportunity to settle controversies arising from conflicting claims. Published: 15 November 2017 by Wicked Whale Publishing.Meta-analysis is the statistical combination of results from two or more separate studies. Themes: Friendship, sport, ice hockey, pizza, reality TV shows, restaurants, parents, romance.Īdvisory: Occasional coarse language, pis* (9), The publishers provided an advanced readers copy of this book for reviewing purposes. If you are looking for a fun, sport-centred, pizza-heavy YA contemporary, then Any Way You Slice It is the book for you. The ending was predictably awesome, which I loved!! I loved the way Pen slowly becomes a part of the team, and how her fellow team members change how they view her. In fact, I would have liked more scenes to be set at the team’s practice or games. I’ve come to really enjoy sports books and Any Way You Slice It was no exception. Of course, aside of pizza (which made me very hungry), light family drama, and cute romance, the main focus of this book is ice hockey. They make a very cute couple, and there are not too many bumps in the road to their renewed friendship and romantic relationship, which I really enjoyed. Both are older now and ready to look past mistakes and misunderstandings. Jake and Penelope were once friends and became sort-of enemies in middle-school. She loves her family, even if she questions her father’s overprotectiveness. She doesn’t want to lie and that prevents this novel from becoming too melodramatic. She is stressed, I was stressed! That emotional tightrope of wanting something so badly combined with knowing if your family discovered your secret there would be no way they would let you continue, is captured so well in this book. Penelope spends the majority of the book lying to various family members and friends. ![]() And actually there is quite a bit of drama, but it’s all light-hearted. But Pen can’t resist the game or Jake’s company and soon she is wrapped up in a tangle of lies, which, if she doesn’t manage a spectacular interception soon, is set to be revealed on national TV.Įvery now and again I love sinking into a low-drama, high-fun novel, and Any Way You Slice It suited perfectly. But she knows her father will never let her play hockey, especially now when he is solely focused on getting their restaurant on a (sure-to-be-humiliating) TV show. When Jake, resident bad boy and her old friend turned we-don’t-speak-anymore-because-of-that-6th-grade-incident enemy, asks Pen to join their recreational ice hockey team, Pen surprises herself by considering it. What more could you want? Any Way You Slice It is the perfect light-hearted YA contemporary.įor Penelope, skating gives her a break from school and endlessly working at her family’s pizza restaurant. For good.Īnd the one thing she IS sure of…she can’t stop playing. As soon as her dad finds out, she’ll be benched. It doesn’t take long for her to fall in love with hockey…but she’s not entirely sure if it’s the game she’s falling for or the boy. She’s sneaking out to practice-and loving every minute of it. The more she plays, the easier it is to keep lying, and soon Pen finds it impossible to come clean. When the bad boy who lives down the street dares her to join the Rink Rats, the local misfit hockey team, she surprises herself and joins in silent defiance of her controlling parents. ![]() But when she laces up her skates and steps on the ice, the world is hers to control and everything else slips away. Between long hours at the family pizza shop, piles of homework, and her dad’s new obsession-getting the restaurant on a new foodie reality show-it’s hard to find a spare moment to breathe. Penelope Spaulding just can’t catch a break.
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