Misused Statistics
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1998
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2nd edition
Crc Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8247-0211-3 (ISBN)
Crc Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8247-0211-3 (ISBN)
Intends to alert readers to the problems, inherent in statistical practice. This work illustrates the types of misused statistics with real-world examples, 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.
"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."
"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."
Spirer, Herbert; Spirer, Louise
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.7.1998 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bosa Roca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8247-0211-5 / 0824702115 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8247-0211-3 / 9780824702113 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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