B D Spencer

Statistics and Public Policy

Herausgeber: Spencer, Bruce D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of this book is to provide information about connections between statistics and public issues and decision making, public administration, law, and public debate. The book describes examples of statistics in public policy areas as disparate as national defense, AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights violations, scientific manpower, population registers and censuses, and individuals with disabilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198523413
• ISBN-10: 0198523416
• Artikelnr.: 21173000

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Uses of Statistics for Description
* 1: Herman Chernoff: Issues in DNA Fingerprinting
* 2: Thomas B. Jabine: The Emerging Field of Human Rights Statistics
* 3: David S.C. Chu and Nancy L. Spruill: Making Defense Decisions:
What Role Might a Statistical Perspective Play?
* 4: Stephen E. Fienberg: Ethics, Objectivity, and Politics: Statistics
in a Public Policy Perspective
* 5: William H. Kruskjal and Stephen M. Stigler: Normative Terminology:
"Normal" in Statistics and Elsewhere
* Part II Data Collection
* 6: W. Allen Wallis: Statistics In Washington, 1935-1945
* 7: Leslie Kish: Periodic and Rolling Samples and Censuses
* 8: Philip Redfern: Numbering the People: Issues of Accuracy, Privacy
and Open Government
* 9: Allan R. Sampson: Surveying Individuals with Disabilities
* 10: James S. Coleman: Constructed Social Networks in the Study of
Diffusion
* Part III Uses of Statistics for Policy Analysis
* 11: Nathan Keyfitz: Why Forecasts Fail and Policies Are Often
Frustrated
* 12: Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller: Experimentation: Just
Do It!
* 13: Stephen P. Dresch and Kenneth R. Janson: Talents, Rewards and
Professional Choice: A General Equilibrium Analysis
* 14: Sam L. Savage: Statistical Analysis for the Masses
* Index