The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition & Society) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives (Economics, Cognition & Society) Book

The Cult of Statistical Significance "McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to."--Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Pri... Full descriptionRead More

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  • Blackwell

    Null hypothesis significance testing is in other words a scientific train-wreck, about which a small group of statisticians have been warning. This book shows how the wreck happened, and reports on the fatalities. It shows how wide the disaster...

  • 0472050079
  • 9780472050079
  • Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Deirdre N. McCloskey
  • 15 January 2008
  • The University of Michigan Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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