Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

by Gary Smith

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As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:146830920X

ISBN13:9781468309201

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:Abrams Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.26 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Math Mathematics Probability & Statistics Psychology Science & Math Social Science Social Sciences

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