Misused Statistics Herbert F. Spirer, Louise Spirer {and} A.J. Jaffe.
Detalles de publicación: New York Marcel Dekker 1998.Edición: 2nd ed. Rev. and ExpISBN:- 0824702115
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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."
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- 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