Critical statistics

Critical statistics: seeing beyond the headlines

by de Vries, Robert, (Sociologist)

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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,…

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  • Full title :Critical statistics : seeing beyond the headlines / Robert de Vries.

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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. --From publisher description.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2019

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xvii, 248 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:113760980X, 9781137609809, 9781137609793, 1137609796
  • oclc:on1039935655
  • LC Classification:HA29
  • Dewey Decimal:300.1/5195

Subjects

Sciences sociales -- Méthodes statistiq… Social sciences -- Statistical methods Society Statistics

Writers

de Vries, Robert, (Sociologist)

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