ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society – serie
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33 produkter
Measuring Crime
Behind the Statistics
Inbunden, 2019
1208 kr
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Every day, newspapers, magazines, web sites, and social media feature articles about the prevalence of crime. Some of these contradict each other; others use inaccurate statistics. Many people who see wildly diverging statistics conclude that no statistics should be trusted. However, the essence of …
Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks
Saving Humanity from the Next Plague
Av Steven E Rigdon, Ronald D. Fricker, Jr.
Inbunden, 2020
1353 kr
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With COVID-19 sweeping across the globe with near impunity, it is thwarting governments and health organizations efforts to contain it. Not since the 1918 Spanish Flu have citizens of developed countries experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak that is having devastating health and economic …
Measuring Society
Inbunden, 2019
936 kr
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Collecting and analyzing data on unemployment, inflation, and inequality help describe the complex world around us. When published by the government, such data are called official statistics. They are reported by the media, used by politicians to lend weight to their arguments, and by economic …
Debunking Seven Terrorism Myths Using Statistics
Av Andre Python
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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What is terrorism? What can we learn and what cannot we learn from terrorism data? What are the perspectives and limitations of the analysis of terrorism data? Over the last decade, scholars have generated unprecedented insight from the statistical analysis of ever-growing databases on terrorism. …
Debunking Seven Terrorism Myths Using Statistics
Av Andre Python
Inbunden, 2020
1313 kr
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What is terrorism? What can we learn and what cannot we learn from terrorism data? What are the perspectives and limitations of the analysis of terrorism data? Over the last decade, scholars have generated unprecedented insight from the statistical analysis of ever-growing databases on terrorism. …
Backseat Driver
The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates
Häftad, 2022
500 kr
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Buying the safest car for your family shouldn’t be up for debate.Yet for decades, car safety advocates, manufacturers, and lawmakers in the United States have clashed over whether to make automobiles safer. All sides armed themselves with data in the hopes of winning the great car safety debates. …
Backseat Driver
The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates
Inbunden, 2022
1313 kr
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Buying the safest car for your family shouldn’t be up for debate.Yet for decades, car safety advocates, manufacturers, and lawmakers in the United States have clashed over whether to make automobiles safer. All sides armed themselves with data in the hopes of winning the great car safety debates. …
Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World
Häftad, 2021
399 kr
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At what point does the sacrifice to our personal information outweigh the public good?If public policymakers had access to our personal and confidential data, they could make more evidence-based, data-informed decisions that could accelerate economic recovery and improve COVID-19 vaccine …
Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World
Inbunden, 2021
936 kr
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At what point does the sacrifice to our personal information outweigh the public good?If public policymakers had access to our personal and confidential data, they could make more evidence-based, data-informed decisions that could accelerate economic recovery and improve COVID-19 vaccine …
Statistics Behind the Headlines
Av A. John Bailer, Rosemary Pennington
Häftad, 2022
413 kr
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How do you learn about what’s going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to know to be a critical consumer of the news you read? If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news …
Statistics Behind the Headlines
Av A. John Bailer, Rosemary Pennington
Inbunden, 2022
965 kr
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How do you learn about what’s going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to know to be a critical consumer of the news you read? If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news …
Achieving Product Reliability
A Key to Business Success
Av Necip Doganaksoy, William Q. Meeker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1353 kr
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Are you buying a car or smartphone or dishwasher? We bet long-term, trouble-free operation (i.e., high reliability) is among the top three things you look for. Reliability problems can lead to everything from minor inconveniences to human disasters. Ensuring high reliability in designing and …
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Lessons Learned from Data Fraud and Questionable Research Practices
Häftad, 2023
473 kr
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This book covers statistical consequences of breaches of research integrity such as fabrication and falsification of data, and researcher glitches summarized as questionable research practices. It is unique in that it discusses how unwarranted data manipulation harms research results and that …
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Lessons Learned from Data Fraud and Questionable Research Practices
Inbunden, 2023
1201 kr
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This book covers statistical consequences of breaches of research integrity such as fabrication and falsification of data, and researcher glitches summarized as questionable research practices. It is unique in that it discusses how unwarranted data manipulation harms research results and that …
Measuring Society
Häftad, 2019
399 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Collecting and analyzing data on unemployment, inflation, and inequality help describe the complex world around us. When published by the government, such data are called official statistics. They are reported by the media, used by politicians to lend weight to their arguments, and by economic …
Achieving Product Reliability
A Key to Business Success
Av Necip Doganaksoy, William Q. Meeker m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
515 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Are you buying a car or smartphone or dishwasher? We bet long-term, trouble-free operation (i.e., high reliability) is among the top three things you look for. Reliability problems can lead to everything from minor inconveniences to human disasters. Ensuring high reliability in designing and …
Statistics and Health Care Fraud
How to Save Billions
Av Tahir Ekin
Inbunden, 2019
2175 kr
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Statistics and Health Care Fraud: How to Save Billions helps the public to become more informed citizens through discussions of real world health care examples and fraud assessment applications. The author presents statistical and analytical methods used in health care fraud audits without …
Statistics and Health Care Fraud
How to Save Billions
Av Tahir Ekin
Häftad, 2019
411 kr
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Statistics and Health Care Fraud: How to Save Billions helps the public to become more informed citizens through discussions of real world health care examples and fraud assessment applications. The author presents statistical and analytical methods used in health care fraud audits without …
Measuring Crime
Behind the Statistics
Häftad, 2019
367 kr
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Every day, newspapers, magazines, web sites, and social media feature articles about the prevalence of crime. Some of these contradict each other; others use inaccurate statistics. Many people who see wildly diverging statistics conclude that no statistics should be trusted. However, the essence of …
Visualizing Baseball
Av Jim Albert
Inbunden, 2017
2185 kr
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Visualizing Baseball provides a visual exploration of the game of baseball. Graphical displays are used to show how measures of performance, at the team level and the individual level, have changed over the history of baseball. Graphs of career trajectories are helpful for understanding the rise …
Data Visualization
Charts, Maps, and Interactive Graphics
Av Robert Grant
Inbunden, 2018
1313 kr
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This is the age of data. There are more innovations and more opportunities for interesting work with data than ever before, but there is also an overwhelming amount of quantitative information being published every day. Data visualisation has become big business, because communication is the …
Quantifying Counterfactual Military History
Av Brennen Fagan, Ian Horwood m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
381 kr
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Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed under great pressure. They may also be successful or catastrophic, but how are historians to make …
Quantifying Counterfactual Military History
Av Brennen Fagan, Ian Horwood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
934 kr
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Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed under great pressure. They may also be successful or catastrophic, but how are historians to make …
Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics
Av Tom Adams
Häftad, 2018
442 kr
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Twenty-four million people wager nearly $3 billion on college basketball pools each year, but few are aware that winning strategies have been developed by researchers at Harvard, Yale, and other universities over the past two decades. Bad advice from media sources and even our own psychological …
Improving Your NCAA® Bracket with Statistics
Av Tom Adams
Inbunden, 2018
1052 kr
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Twenty-four million people wager nearly $3 billion on college basketball pools each year, but few are aware that winning strategies have been developed by researchers at Harvard, Yale, and other universities over the past two decades. Bad advice from media sources and even our own psychological …
Data Visualization
Charts, Maps, and Interactive Graphics
Av Robert Grant
Häftad, 2018
370 kr
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This is the age of data. There are more innovations and more opportunities for interesting work with data than ever before, but there is also an overwhelming amount of quantitative information being published every day. Data visualisation has become big business, because communication is the …
Errors, Blunders, and Lies
How to Tell the Difference
Inbunden, 2017
1459 kr
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We live in a world that is not quite "right." The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedeviled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts …
Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks
Saving Humanity from the Next Plague
Av Steven E Rigdon, Ronald D. Fricker, Jr.
Häftad, 2020
515 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With COVID-19 sweeping across the globe with near impunity, it is thwarting governments and health organizations efforts to contain it. Not since the 1918 Spanish Flu have citizens of developed countries experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak that is having devastating health and economic …
Visualizing Baseball
Av Jim Albert
Häftad, 2017
442 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Visualizing Baseball provides a visual exploration of the game of baseball. Graphical displays are used to show how measures of performance, at the team level and the individual level, have changed over the history of baseball. Graphs of career trajectories are helpful for understanding the rise …
Errors, Blunders, and Lies
How to Tell the Difference
Häftad, 2017
442 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We live in a world that is not quite "right." The central tenet of statistical inquiry is that Observation = Truth + Error because even the most careful of scientific investigations have always been bedeviled by uncertainty. Our attempts to measure things are plagued with small errors. Our attempts …
