Errors, blunders, and lies : how to tell the difference / by David S. Salsburg.
Errors, blunders, and lies : how to tell the difference / by David S. Salsburg.
Errors, blunders, and lies : how to tell the difference / by David S. Salsburg.
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Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]
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G 2017/3305
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English
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xiii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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The transit of Venus -- Probability versus likelihood -- The central limit conjecture -- Measuring disease -- Other uses of multilinear models -- When multilinear regression is not adequate -- Correlation versus causation -- Regression and big data -- Contaminated distributions -- The Princeton robu...
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Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]
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Florida
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[2017]
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We live in a world that is not quite 'right'. The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedevilled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts to understand our world are blocked by blunders....
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Errors, blunders, and lies : how to tell the difference / by David S. Salsburg.
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ASA-CRC series on statistical reasoning in science and society
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/3305
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74VKVLlDEMEZ
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1138726982 hardback
9781498795784 paperback
1498795781 paperback
9781138726987 hardback
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519.509
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991024113018002626
