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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

by Ziliak, Stephen; McCloskey, Deirdre N

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Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xxiii, 321pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The Cult of Statistical Significance shows, field by field, how "statistical significance," a technique that dominates many sciences, has been a huge mistake. The authors find that researchers in a broad spectrum of fields, from agronomy to zoology, employ "testing" that doesn't test and "estimating" that doesn't estimate. The facts will startle the outside reader: how could a group of brilliant scientists wander so far from scientific magnitudes? This study will encourage scientists who want to know how to get the statistical sciences back on track and fulfill their quantitative promise. The book shows for the first time how wide the disaster is, and how bad for science, and it traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots.(Publisher).

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Title
The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
Author
Ziliak, Stephen; McCloskey, Deirdre N
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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ISBN 10
0472050079
ISBN 13
9780472050079
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor
Date Published
2012

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