Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference: Controversy: Misuse, and Subtlety (Popular Statistics)

Wang, Charmont

ISBN 10: 0367402564 / ISBN 13: 9780367402563

Published by Routledge, 2019

About this Item

Seller Inventory # I-9780367402563

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sense and Nonsense of Statistical Inference: Controversy: Misuse, and Subtlety (Popular Statistics)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367402564
• ISBN 13: 9780367402563
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This volume focuses on the abuse of statistical inference in scientific and statistical literature, as well as in a variety of other sources, presenting examples of misused statistics to show that many scientists and statisticians are unaware of, or unwilling to challenge the chaotic state of statistical practices.;The book: provides examples of ubiquitous statistical tests taken from the biomedical and behavioural sciences, economics and the statistical literature; discusses conflicting views of randomization, emphasizing certain aspects of induction and epistemology; reveals fallacious practices in statistical causal inference, stressing the misuse of regression models and time-series analysis as instant formulas to draw causal relationships; treats constructive uses of statistics, such as a modern version of Fisher's puzzle, Bayesian analysis, Shewhart control chart, descriptive statistics, chi-square test, nonlinear modeling, spectral estimation and Markov processes in quality control.

About the Author

Wang\, Charmont