Misused Statistics
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Author(s): H. F. Spirer, L. Spirer and A. J. Jaffe
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
ISBN: 0 8247 0211 5
Format: softback
265pp
Price: $49.75
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This 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 of this new edition, drawn from a wide range of areas, including the media, public policy, polls and surveys, political elections and debates, advertising, health care, and economics. Showing how to detect and rectify the innaccurate or deceptive usage of quantitative data in reports, articles, and statements, this extensively rewritten second edition makes a sophisticated statistical issues accessible to novices, while retaining technical features of pertinence to porofessionals... reveals how to identify, understand, and deal with statistical misuses... demonstarates how to evaluate examples in a step-by-step fashion... and more.