Misused Statistics

2. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8247-0211-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Popular Statistics

"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."

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spirer, Herbert

Spirer, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Spirer, Herbert; Spirer, Louise