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Misused Statistics

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-40039-2
Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
Erscheinungstermin: 05.09.2019
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"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."

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780367400392
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-40039-2
  • Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
  • Erscheinungstermin: 05.09.2019
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2. Auflage 2019
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 567 g
  • Seiten: 280
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 234 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

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.