Herbert Spirer, Louise Spirer

Misused Statistics

• Gebundenes Buch

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."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd Rev and Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780824702113
• ISBN-10: 0824702115
• Artikelnr.: 22221788

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.