Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference: Controversy, Misuse, and Subtlety (Popular Statistics) - Softcover

Book 3 of 4: Popular Statistics

Wang, Charmont

 
9780367402563: Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference: Controversy, Misuse, and Subtlety (Popular Statistics)
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ISBN 10: 0367402564 ISBN 13: 9780367402563
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This volume focuses on the abuse of statistical inference in scientific and statistical literature, as well as in a variety of other sources, presenting examples of misused statistics to show that many scientists and statisticians are unaware of, or unwilling to challenge the chaotic state of statistical practices.;The book: provides examples of ubiquitous statistical tests taken from the biomedical and behavioural sciences, economics and the statistical literature; discusses conflicting views of randomization, emphasizing certain aspects of induction and epistemology; reveals fallacious practices in statistical causal inference, stressing the misuse of regression models and time-series analysis as instant formulas to draw causal relationships; treats constructive uses of statistics, such as a modern version of Fisher's puzzle, Bayesian analysis, Shewhart control chart, descriptive statistics, chi-square test, nonlinear modeling, spectral estimation and Markov processes in quality control.

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Wang\, Charmont

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367402564
ISBN 13 
9780367402563
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264

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