How to lie with statistics
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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Main Author: | Huff, Darrell. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Norton,
1993.
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