Statistics you can't trust : a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life

著者

• Campbell, Stephen K. (Stephen Kent)
• Hall, Mark V.

書誌事項

Statistics you can't trust : a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life

Steve Campbell ; illustrated by Mark V. Hall

Think Twice Pub., 1999

注記

Includes index

Some parts of this book appeared in Stephen K. Campbell, "Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking" (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974)

収録内容

• The last shall be first
• Measurements: valid, veiled, and overblown
• Cheating charts
• Accommodating averages
• Air, gravity, and variation
• Puffing up a point with percents
• Careless comparisons
• Jumping to conclusions
• Slapdash probabilities
• The mysterious sampling factory
• Relationships: causal and casual
• Beyond plain as day
• Significant others
• Forty awful examples

詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC14819817
• ISBN:
  • 0966617150
• LCCN: 98090593
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Parker, Colo.
• ページ数/冊数: 270 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HA29
  • DC22 : 519.5
  • NDC9 : 417
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Statistical methods
  • LCSH : Statistics