Herbert Spirer, Louise Spirer

Misused Statistics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482270075
• Artikelnr.: 58255243

Autorenporträt

Spirer, Herbert; Spirer, Louise

Inhaltsangabe

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.