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

By Gary Smith

Book Overview

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: Overlook Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher