Misused statistics
著者
書誌事項
Misused statistics
(Popular statistics, 7)
M. Dekker, c1998
2nd ed., rev. and expanded
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注記
Rev. and expanded ed. of: Misused statistics / A.J. Jaffe, Herbert J. Spirer. c1987
Bibliography: p. 245-257
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Revised and updated edition of a standard in the field. Alerts readers to the problems, inherent in statistical practice-illustrating the types of misused statistics with well-documented, real-world examples, nearly half new to this edition, drawn from a wide range of areas, including the media, public policy, polls and surveys, political elections and debates, advertising, science and health care, and business and economics."
目次
- Setting the stage
- categories of misuses
- know the subject matter
- definitions
- quality of basic data
- graphics and presentation
- methodology - a brief review
- faulty interpretation
- surveys and polls - getting the data
- surveys and polls -analyzing the data
- the law of parsimony - Ockham's razor
- thinking - lack of forethought, lack of afterthought
- ectoplastics
- the body politic - governments and polititions
- afterword.
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