Errors, blunders, and lies : how to tell the difference / David S. Salsburg.

Author: Salsburg, David, 1931-

Imprint:Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]

Descriptionxiii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Note:The transit of Venus -- Probability versus likelihood -- The central limit conjecture -- Measuring disease -- Other uses of multilinear models -- When multilinear regression is not adequate -- Correlation versus causation -- Regression and big data -- Contaminated distributions -- The Princeton robustness study -- When the blunder is what you want -- Parsing "blunders" -- The reigns of kings -- Searching for the "real" Davy Crockett -- Detecting falsified counts -- Uncovering secrets -- Errors, blunders, or curbstoning?

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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