How to lie with statistics
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New York : Norton, 1993.
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144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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Sylvan Oaks
519.5 H889 1993
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Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform.
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9780393310726, 0393310728
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Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than inform.
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Huff, D. (1993). How to lie with statistics. New York, Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Huff, Darrell. 1993. How to Lie With Statistics. New York, Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Huff, Darrell, How to Lie With Statistics. New York, Norton, 1993.
MLA Citation (style guide)Huff, Darrell. How to Lie With Statistics. New York, Norton, 1993.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Acknowledgments -- |g Introduction -- |t The Sample with the built-in bias -- |t The Well-chosen average -- |t The Little figures that are not there -- |t Much ado about practically nothing -- |t The Gee-whiz graph -- |t The One-dimensional picture -- |t The Semiattached figure -- |t Post hoc rides again -- |t How to statisticulate -- |t How to talk back to a statistic. |
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