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Misused statistics

Herbert F. Spirer, Louise Spirer, A.J. Jaffe

(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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