Critical Statistics

Author : Robert de Vries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350314375

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Critical Statistics by Robert de Vries Pdf

Awarded the 2019 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. This accessible and entertaining new textbook provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the barrage of numbers encountered in their everyday lives and studies. Almost all the statistics in the news, on social media or in scientific reports are based on just a few core concepts, including measurement (ensuring we count the right thing), causation (determining whether one thing causes another) and sampling (using just a few people to understand a whole population). By explaining these concepts in plain language, without complex mathematics, this book prepares students to meet the statistical world head on and to begin their own quantitative research projects. Ideal for students facing statistical research for the first time, or for anyone interested in understanding more about the numbers in the news, this textbook helps students to see beyond the headlines and behind the numbers.

Author : Jennifer Peat,Belinda Barton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470755204

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Medical Statistics by Jennifer Peat,Belinda Barton Pdf

Holistic approach to understanding medical statistics This hands-on guide is much more than a basic medical statistics introduction. It equips you with the statistical tools required for evidence-based clinical research. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate and interpret the numbers, and present the results as scientific tables or graphs. Showing you how to: analyse data with the help of data set examples (Click here to download datasets) select the correct statistics and report results for publication or presentation understand and critically appraise results reported in the literature Each statistical test is linked to the research question and the type of study design used. There are also checklists for critically appraising the literature and web links to useful internet sites. Clear and concise explanations, combined with plenty of examples and tabulated explanations are based on the authors’ popular medical statistics courses. Critical appraisal guidelines at the end of each chapter help the reader evaluate the statistical data in their particular contexts.

Author : Daniel J. Levitin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780143196280

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A Field Guide to Lies by Daniel J. Levitin Pdf

Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2017 National Business Book Award Shortlisted for the 2016/2017 Donner Prize From the bestselling author of The Organized Mind, the must-have book about how to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions and outright lies from reliable information? In A Field Guide to Lies, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them. Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical infomation and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. It is easy to lie with stats and graphs as few people "take the time to look under the hood and see how they work." And, just because there's a number on something, doesn't mean that the number was arrived at properly. Logic can help to evaluate whether or not a chain of reasoning is valid. And "infoliteracy" teaches us that not all sources of information are equal, and that biases can distort data. Faced with a world too eager to flood us with information, the best response is to be prepared. A Field Guide to Lies helps us avoid learning a lot of things that aren't true.

Author : Anne Beaulieu,Sabina Leonelli
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529765120

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Data and Society by Anne Beaulieu,Sabina Leonelli Pdf

Data and Society: A Critical Introduction investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource. It explains how data practices have come to underpin all aspects of human life and explores what this means for those directly involved in handling data. The book fosters informed debate over the role of data in contemporary society explains the significance of data as evidence beyond the "Big Data" hype spans the technical, sociological, philosophical and ethical dimensions of data provides guidance on how to use data responsibly includes data stories that provide concrete cases and discussion questions. Grounded in examples spanning genetics, sport and digital innovation, this book fosters insight into the deep interrelations between technical, social and ethical aspects of data work.

Author : D. Basu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461238942

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Statistical Information and Likelihood by D. Basu Pdf

It is an honor to be asked to write a foreword to this book, for I believe that it and other books to follow will eventually lead to a dramatic change in the current statistics curriculum in our universities. I spent the 1975-76 academic year at Florida State University in Tallahassee. My purpose was to complete a book on Statistical Reliability Theory with Frank Proschan. At the time, I was working on total time on test processes. At the same time, I started attending lectures by Dev Basu on statistical inference. It was Lehmann's hypothesis testing course and Lehmann's book was the text. However, I noticed something strange - Basu never opened the book. He was obviously not following it. Instead, he was giving a very elegant, measure theoretic treatment of the concepts of sufficiency, ancillarity, and invariance. He was interested in the concept of information - what it meant. - how it fitted in with contemporary statistics. As he looked at the fundamental ideas, the logic behind their use seemed to evaporate. I was shocked. I didn't like priors. I didn't like Bayesian statistics. But after the smoke had cleared, that was all that was left. Basu loves counterexamples. He is like an art critic in the field of statistical inference. He would find a counterexample to the Bayesian approach if he could. So far, he has failed in this respect.

Author : Wisconsin. Tax Commission,Frank Allan Hanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Income tax
ISBN : UOM:39015077863408

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A Critical Analysis of Wisconsin Individual Income Tax Statistics by Wisconsin. Tax Commission,Frank Allan Hanna Pdf

Author : Bernard C. Beins,Maureen A. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108553926

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Research Methods and Statistics by Bernard C. Beins,Maureen A. McCarthy Pdf

Research Methods and Statistics provides a seamless introduction to the subject, identifying various research areas and analyzing how one can approach them statistically. The text provides a solid empirical foundation for undergraduate psychology majors, and prepares the reader to think critically, and evaluate psychological research and claims they might hear in the news or popular press. The text can be used in all statistics, methods and experimental psychology courses.

Author : David Loshin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080920349

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The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement by David Loshin Pdf

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology. It shares the fundamentals for understanding the impacts of poor data quality, and guides practitioners and managers alike in socializing, gaining sponsorship for, planning, and establishing a data quality program. It demonstrates how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintenance and ongoing metrics. It includes an in-depth look at the use of data quality tools, including business case templates, and tools for analysis, reporting, and strategic planning. This book is recommended for data management practitioners, including database analysts, information analysts, data administrators, data architects, enterprise architects, data warehouse engineers, and systems analysts, and their managers. Offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology. Shows how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintenance and ongoing metrics. Includes an in-depth look at the use of data quality tools, including business case templates, and tools for analysis, reporting, and strategic planning.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065042461

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Critical and miscellaneous essays by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433076070618

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Carlyles' Works: Critical and miscellaneous essays by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Belinda Barton,Jennifer Peat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118589939

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Medical Statistics by Belinda Barton,Jennifer Peat Pdf

Medical Statistics provides the necessary statistical tools to enable researchers to undertake and understand evidence-based clinical research. It is a practical guide to conducting statistical research and interpreting statistics in the context of how the participants were recruited, how the study was designed, what types of variables were used, what effect size was found, and what the P values mean. It guides researchers through the process of selecting the correct statistics and show how to best report results for presentation and publication. Clear and concise explanations, combined with plenty of examples and tabulated explanations are based on the authors’ popular medical statistics courses. The table of contents is divided into sections according to whether data are continuous or categorical in nature as this distinction is fundamental to selecting the correct statistics. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate and interpret the numbers, and present the results as scientific tables or graphs. The chapters conclude with critical appraisal guidelines to help researchers review the reporting of results from each type of statistical test. This new edition includes a new chapter on repeated measures and mixed models and a helpful glossary of terms provides an easy reference that applies to all chapters.

Author : Frank Henry Pike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000089912145

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A Critical and Statistical Study of the Determination of Sex, Particularly in Human Offspring by Frank Henry Pike Pdf

Author : W. Alleyne Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : East Indians
ISBN : NYPL:33433115102463

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Demerariana: Essays Historical, Critical and Descriptive by W. Alleyne Ireland Pdf

Author : Joseph F. Healey
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015082633507

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Statistics by Joseph F. Healey Pdf

Healey knows social research statistics thoroughly, and he also knows how deeply students fear it. This Fourth Edition delivers an effective balance of conceptual and practical approaches to statistics in language that truly communicates with students. Healey covers basic statistical concepts and techniques in a step-by-step manner, continually emphasizing the underlying logic and the social research contexts that make sense of it all. In the process, students get plenty of unthreatening exposure to the usually challenging task of statistical interpretations.

Author : Sue L. T. McGregor
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506350974

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Understanding and Evaluating Research by Sue L. T. McGregor Pdf

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported. The book starts with what it means to be a critical and uncritical reader of research, followed by a detailed chapter on methodology, and then proceeds to a discussion of each component of a research article as it is informed by the methodology. The book encourages readers to select an article from their discipline, learning along the way how to assess each component of the article and come to a judgment of its rigor or quality as a scholarly report.