Statistics you can't trust : a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life
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書誌事項
Statistics you can't trust : a friendly guide to clear thinking about statistics in everyday life
Think Twice Pub., 1999
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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