Popular Statistics
How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
1st Edition
By Robert Hooke
December 02, 2019
This book shows how statistical reasoning affects all aspects of our lives. It touches on drug testing, discrimination, sports, political polls, compulsive gambling, gun detectors, cancer research, crime and punishment, opinion surveys, advertising, mass production, and doctors' waiting rooms....
The Fascination of Statistics
1st Edition
By Richard J. Brook
December 02, 2019
This book demonstrates how numbers open up new ways of thinking about problems and addresses current issues for which statistics has practical applications. The articles are classified according to probability, condensing data, testing, estimation, experimental design, prediction, and modelling....
Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference: Controversy: Misuse, and Subtlety
1st Edition
By Charmont Wang
September 19, 2019
This volume focuses on the abuse of statistical inference in scientific and statistical literature, as well as in a variety of other sources, presenting examples of misused statistics to show that many scientists and statisticians are unaware of, or unwilling to challenge the chaotic state of ...