Misused Statistics

By Louise Spirer and Herbert Spirer

Book Overview

"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."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824702115
• ISBN13: 9780824702113
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"