Robert Hooke

How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research, crime and punishment, opinion surveys, advertising, mass production, and doctors' waiting rooms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498710442
• Artikelnr.: 57081452

Autorenporträt

Robert Hooke

Inhaltsangabe

"Statistics Are--Statistics Is Worry More on Worry Statistics and Chances
Measuring Chances Chances and Drug Laws The Broad-Base Fallacy The
Unmentioned Base The Elmer Gantry Effect When the Truth is Not the Whole
Truth Ceteris Paribus Statistics of Discrimination A Paradox in
Discrimination Statistics Smoking and Cancer People are Different Risk
Taking in Industry The Risk Taker's Image When Should We Take Chances? Cost
Accounting Bridges, Underpasses, and Corporate Profts Are You Average
Enough? Infatuation with Averages The Law of Averages, Compulsive Gambling,
and the Rubber Band Theory A Rational View of Luck Luck and Skill Combined
Luck and Dependence Confidence and Dependence Sports ""Form'' and
Consistency Who is Unemployed? Cost of Living Trade-Offs False Alarms
Liberals and Conservatives One-Armed Consultants The GGFTGN, the Bill of
Rights, and Other Things Things to Think about while Waiting to See the
Doctor Zero or Nothing? Quality Control and ""Zero Defects'' Scaling Up and
Down More is Less Large Samples and Bad News Rare Floods, Rare Scientists,
and Frustrated Authors The World is Getting Smaller Population Size and the
Quality of Life Raisins, Nuts, and Samples Political Polls Opinion Surveys
Television Ratings---More of the Same The Significance of Significance
Garbage In--Garbage Out The Double Negative and the Consumer The Double
Negative and Social Science What is Correlation? The Coin that Won't Stand
on Edge Guilt by Association Psychological Tests and Job Success Credit and
Your Computer Kin College Entrance Tests Science and Statistics The
Scientific Method Looking Backward vs. Looking Forward Controlled
Experimentation Cause and Effect Value Judgments and Planning
Serendipity---Puttering vs. Planning Unconscious Dishonesty Watch out for
67% What Experiments Can Learn from Football and Card Players A Digression
on Random Digits and Computerized Simulation Generalizations Within vs.
Between A Thought about Stereotypes Longevity at the Hot Cor