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Author : Stephen K. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking written by Stephen K. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen K. Campbell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140512
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking written by Stephen K. Campbell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nontechnical survey helps improve ability to judge statistical evidence and to make better-informed decisions. Discusses common pitfalls: unrealistic estimates, improper comparisons, premature conclusions, and faulty thinking about probability. 1974 edition.
Author : Aubrey Clayton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553358
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Bernoulli's Fallacy written by Aubrey Clayton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations. Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics. Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach—that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information—in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.
Author : Edward J. Barbeau
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1614445184
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam written by Edward J. Barbeau and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of mathematical errors, drawn from the work of students, textbooks, and the media, as well as from professional mathematicians themselves.
Author : Will W.K. Ma
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811043469
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book New Ecology for Education — Communication X Learning written by Will W.K. Ma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the best papers from the HKAECT-AECT 2017 Summer International Research Symposium. Revealing the complex interactions between communication and learning, which are represented by the symbol “X” in the title, it provides a platform for knowledge exchange on the new ecology for education in the digital era. It also equips readers to handle complex issues in both communication and education, and clarifies the difference between practitioners and academics in communication and in education.
Author : Thomas H. Davenport
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422187268
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Keeping Up with the Quants written by Thomas H. Davenport and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Everyone Needs Analytical Skills Welcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)—your world is awash with data. As a successful manager today, you must be able to make sense of all this information. You need to be conversant with analytical terminology and methods and able to work with quantitative information. This book promises to become your “quantitative literacy" guide—helping you develop the analytical skills you need right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value. In Keeping Up with the Quants, authors, professors, and analytics experts Thomas Davenport and Jinho Kim offer practical tools to improve your understanding of data analytics and enhance your thinking and decision making. You’ll gain crucial skills, including: • How to formulate a hypothesis • How to gather and analyze relevant data • How to interpret and communicate analytical results • How to develop habits of quantitative thinking • How to deal effectively with the “quants” in your organization Big data and the analytics based on it promise to change virtually every industry and business function over the next decade. If you don’t have a business degree or if you aren’t comfortable with statistics and quantitative methods, this book is for you. Keeping Up with the Quants will give you the skills you need to master this new challenge—and gain a significant competitive edge.
Author : Thomas H. Davenport
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1625277741
Total Pages : 961 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Analytics and Big Data: The Davenport Collection (6 Items) written by Thomas H. Davenport and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Analytics and Big Data collection offers a “greatest hits” digital compilation of ideas from world-renowned thought leader Thomas Davenport, who helped popularize the terms analytics and big data in the workplace. An agile and prolific thinker, Davenport has written or coauthored more than a dozen bestselling books. Several of these titles are offered together for the first time in this curated digital bundle, including: Big Data at Work, Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work, and Keeping Up with the Quants. The collection also includes Davenport’s popular Harvard Business Review articles, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” (2012) and “Analytics 3.0” (2013). Combined, these works cover all the bases on analytics and big data: what each term means; the ramifications of each from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; and where each can have the biggest impact on your business. Whether you’re an executive, a manager, or a student wanting to learn more, Analytics and Big Data is the most comprehensive collection you’ll find on the ever-growing phenomenon of digital data and analysis—and how you can make this rising business trend work for you. Named one of the ten “Masters of the New Economy” by CIO magazine, Thomas Davenport has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. He combines his interests in research, teaching, and business management as the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management at Babson College. Davenport has also taught at Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin and has directed research centers at Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and CSC. He is also an independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.
Author : Alfred S. Posamentier
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616147482
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics written by Alfred S. Posamentier and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two veteran math educators demonstrate how some "magnificent mistakes" had profound consequences for our understanding of mathematics' key concepts. In the nineteenth century, English mathematician William Shanks spent fifteen years calculating the value of pi, setting a record for the number of decimal places. Later, his calculation was reproduced using large wooden numerals to decorate the cupola of a hall in the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. However, in 1946, with the aid of a mechanical desk calculator that ran for seventy hours, it was discovered that there was a mistake in the 528th decimal place. Today, supercomputers have determined the value of pi to trillions of decimal places. This is just one of the amusing and intriguing stories about mistakes in mathematics in this layperson's guide to mathematical principles. In another example, the authors show that when we "prove" that every triangle is isosceles, we are violating a concept not even known to Euclid - that of "betweenness." And if we disregard the time-honored Pythagorean theorem, this is a misuse of the concept of infinity. Even using correct procedures can sometimes lead to absurd - but enlightening - results. Requiring no more than high-school-level math competency, this playful excursion through the nuances of math will give you a better grasp of this fundamental, all-important science.
Author : Carmen Batanero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463006249
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Statistics and Probability in High School written by Carmen Batanero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics and probability are fascinating fields, tightly interwoven with the context of the problems which have to be modelled. The authors demonstrate how investigations and experiments provide promising teaching strategies to help high-school students acquire statistical and probabilistic literacy. In the first chapter the authors put into practice the following educational principles, reflecting their views of how these subjects should be taught: a focus on the most relevant ideas and postpone extensions to later stages; illustrating the complementary/dual nature of statistical and probabilistic reasoning; utilising the potential of technology and show its limits; and reflecting on the different levels of formalisation to meet the wide variety of students’ previous knowledge, abilities, and learning types. The remaining chapters deal with exploratory data analysis, modelling information by probabilities, exploring and modelling association, and with sampling and inference. Throughout the book, a modelling view of the concepts guides the presentation. In each chapter, the development of a cluster of fundamental ideas is centred around a statistical study or a real-world problem that leads to statistical questions requiring data in order to be answered. The concepts developed are designed to lead to meaningful solutions rather than remain abstract entities. For each cluster of ideas, the authors review the relevant research on misconceptions and synthesise the results of research in order to support teaching of statistics and probability in high school. What makes this book unique is its rich source of worked-through tasks and its focus on the interrelations between teaching and empirical research on understanding statistics and probability.
Author : Douglas Walton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586322
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity written by Douglas Walton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are happy to present to the reader the first book of our Applied Logic Series. Walton's book on the fallacies of ambiguity is firmly at the heart of practical reasoning, an important part of applied logic. There is an increasing interest in artifIcial intelligence, philosophy, psychol ogy, software engineering and linguistics, in the analysis and possible mechanisation of human practical reasoning. Continuing the ancient quest that began with Aristotle, computer scientists, logicians, philosophers and linguists are vigorously seeking to deepen our understanding of human reasoning and argumentation. Significant communities of researchers are actively engaged in developing new approaches to logic and argumentation, which are better suited to the urgent needs of today's applications. The author of this book has, over many years, made significant contributions to the detailed analysis of practical reasoning case studies, thus providing solid foundations for new and more applicable formal logical systems. We welcome Doug Walton's new book to our series.
Author : Scott M. Lynch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461485738
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Using Statistics in Social Research written by Scott M. Lynch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. The chapters are based on lecture notes from an introductory statistics course the author has taught for a number of years. The book integrates statistics into the research process, with early chapters covering basic philosophical issues underpinning the process of scientific research. These include the concepts of deductive reasoning and the falsifiability of hypotheses, the development of a research question and hypotheses, and the process of data collection and measurement. Probability theory is then covered extensively with a focus on its role in laying the foundation for statistical reasoning and inference. After illustrating the Central Limit Theorem, later chapters address the key, basic statistical methods used in social science research, including various z and t tests and confidence intervals, nonparametric chi square tests, one-way analysis of variance, correlation, simple regression, and multiple regression, with a discussion of the key issues involved in thinking about causal processes. Concepts and topics are illustrated using both real and simulated data. The penultimate chapter presents rules and suggestions for the successful presentation of statistics in tabular and graphic formats, and the final chapter offers suggestions for subsequent reading and study.
Author : Herve Abdi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199299889
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology written by Herve Abdi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete course in data collection and analysis for students who need to go beyond the basics. A true course companion, the engaging writing style takes readers through challenging topics, blending examples and exercises with careful explanations and custom-drawn figures ensuring the most daunting concepts can be fully understood.
Author : Dr. Russell A. Langley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486317277
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Practical Statistics Simply Explained written by Dr. Russell A. Langley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primer on how to draw valid conclusions from numerical data using logic and the philosophy of statistics rather than complex formulae. Discusses averages and scatter, investigation design, more. Problems, solutions.
Author : Douglas N. Walton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027278903
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Informal Fallacies written by Douglas N. Walton and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors, standards, or procedures should be adopted or appealed to in evaluating an argument as “good,” “not-so-good,” “open to criticism,” “fallacious,” and so forth. Hence our primary concern will be with the problems of how to criticize an argument, and when a criticism is reasonably justified.
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471743844
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 3 written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES
Author : Lucy Horwitz
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896080331
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Statistics for Social Change written by Lucy Horwitz and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics for Social Change is a broadly accessible introduction to statistical techniques and their misuse in explaining everyday life situations. Each chapter of the book is divided into two parts. In the first part there is a step by step explanation of statistical techniques, including the logic of statistics, percentages, graphs, averages, index numbers, variability, probability, estimation, regression and correlation analysis. In the second part, the authors provide applications of these techniques as well as show how they are abused by the advertising industry, the media, and the government when selling their products and policies to the American people. This is a book for everyone who wants to get a handle on the world and the ways it is statistically distorted.
Author : Michael Malec
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980396
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Essential Statistics For Social Research written by Michael Malec and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need only scan a newspaper or magazine, turn on a news broadcast, or open a sociology text or journal to see that we live in an age that is heavily dependent on statistical information. The extent this dependency is such that it is rather difficult to be an educated person without having at least a passing acquaintance with basic statistics. More to the point, it is virtually impossible to be a capable social scientist without having a definite, if elementary, understanding of some basic statistics and statistical methods of analysis. But a casual acquaintance with a few simple statistics will not serve the social scientist who attempts to read competently the literature of the field. And if one wishes to do quantitative social research—and most research published today is quantitative—a more thorough knowledge of statistics is imperative. The aspiring sociologist need only examine the books and articles that are being published today for evidence of this claim. A very large portion of the articles published in the major sociology journals use some form of statistical analysis. Some of these articles and other works published sociologists are incomprehensible without a statistics background; others will simply be read less intelligently or with a lessened sense of appreciation or criticism.
