Lauded for their contributions to statistics, psychology, and psychometrics, the authors make statistical methods relevant to readers? day-to-day lives by including real historical situations that demonstrate the role of statistics in reasoning and decision making. The historical vignettes encompass the English case of Sally Clark, breast cancer screening, risk and gambling, the Federal Rules of Evidence, ?high-stakes? testing, regulatory issues in medicine, difficulties with observational studies, ethics in human experiments, health statistics, and much more. In addition to these topics, seven U.S. Supreme Court decisions reflect the influence of statistical and psychometric reasoning and interpretation/misinterpretation. Exploring the intersection of ethics and statistics, this comprehensive guide assists readers in becoming critical and ethical consumers and producers of statistical reasoning and analyses. It will help them reason correctly and use statistics in an ethical manner.
Additional ISBNs
9781138462465, 1138462462
A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed Ebook
By: Lawrence Hubert
Publisher:
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Print ISBN: 9781439873687, 1439873682
eText ISBN: 9781439873694, 1439873690
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 2012
Format: PDF
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