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Quantifying Counterfactual Military History

by A. Jamie Wood, Brennen Fagan, Christopher Price, Ian Horwood e Niall Mackay

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed under great pressure. How can we distinguish probable unrealized alternatives from improbable ones?
Never Waste A Good Crisis - Lessons Learned From Data Fraud And Questionable Research Practices

by Klaas Sijtsma

42,39€ + 10% CARD

 This book covers statistical consequences of breaches of research integrity such as fabrication and falsification of data, and researcher glitches summarized as questionable research practices. It is unique in that it discusses how unwarranted data manipulation harms research results and that questionable research practices are often caused by researchers’ inadequate mastery of the statistical methods and procedures they use for their data analysis. The author’s solution to prevent problems concerning the trustworthiness of research results, no matter how they originated, is to publish data in publicly available repositories and encourage researchers not trained as statisticians not to overestimate their statistical skills and resort to professional support from statisticians or methodologists.The author discusses some of his experiences concerning mutual trust, fear of repercussions, and the bystander effect as conditions limiting revelation of colleagues’ possible integrity breaches. He explains why people are unable to mimic real data and why data fabrication using statistical models stills falls short of credibility. Confirmatory and exploratory research and the usefulness of preregistration, and the counter-intuitivenature of statistics, are discussed.The author questions the usefulness of statistical advice concerning frequentist hypothesis testing, Bayes-factor use, alternative statistics education, and reduction of situational disturbances like performance pressure, as stand-alone means to reduce questionable research practices when researchers lack experience with statistics.An interview with the author can be found here: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/magazine/overview/former-rector-sijtsma-turn-statistician-fight-fraud-and-sloppiness.
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Statistics Behind The Headlines

by A. John Bailer e Rosemary Pennington

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 How do you learn about what’s going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to know to be a critical consumer of the news you read? If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news consumption skills, this book is for you! It reflects a long-term collaboration between a statistician and a journalist to shed light on the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. The only prerequisite for enjoying this book is an interest in developing the skills and insights for better understanding news stories that incorporate quantitative information.Chapters in Statistics Behind the Headlines kick off with a news story headline and a summary of the story itself. The meat of each chapter consists of an exploration of the statistical and journalism concepts needed to understand the data analyzed and reported in the story. The chapters are organized around these sections:<ul> <li>What ideas will you encounter in this chapter?</li> <li>What is claimed? Is it appropriate?</li> <li>Who is claiming this?</li> <li>Why is it claimed? What makes this a story worth telling?</li> <li>Is this a good measure of impact?</li> <li>How is the claim supported?</li> <li>What evidence is reported?</li> <li>What is the quality/strength of the evidence?</li> <li>Does the claim seem reasonable?</li> <li>How does this claim fit with what is already known?</li> <li>How much does this matter?</li> <li>Considering the coverage</li> </ul>Chapters close with connections to the Stats + Stories podcast.
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Backseat Driver - The Role Of Data In Great Car Safety Debates

by Norma Faris Hubele

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 Car safety advocates, manufacturers, and lawmakers have clashed over whether to make automobiles safer. All sides armed themselves with data in the hopes of winning the great car safety debates.In this way, crash statistics and the analysts who studied them made history.
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Statistics Behind The Headlines

by A. John Bailer e Rosemary Pennington

89,21€ + 10% CARD

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 Constructed from series of headlines and articles connected to scientific or government report. Exploration of statistical concepts in report: source of data, issues with quantifying and measuring variables/features, representation and analysis of statistical models, discussion of whether headline and article fairly captured original report.
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Statistics Behind The Headlines

by A. John Bailer e Rosemary Pennington

37,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Constructed from series of headlines and articles connected to scientific or government report. Exploration of statistical concepts in report: source of data, issues with quantifying and measuring variables/features, representation and analysis of statistical models, discussion of whether headline and article fairly captured original report.
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Protecting Your Privacy In A Data-Driven World

by Claire Mckay Bowen

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Does sacrifice to personal information outweigh public good? Access to personal and confidential data allows for more evidence-based, data-informed decisions that can accelerate economic recovery, improve COVID-19 vaccine distribution. However, access comes at a steep privacy cost for contributors, especially underrepresented groups.
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Achieving Product Reliability - A Key To Business Success

by Gerald J. Hahn, Necip Doganaksoy e William Q. Meeker

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 Readers who are interested in learning how statistics is used to solve real-life reliability problems. Real-life examples and case studies to illustrate applications of statistics with heavy reliance of data and analysis graphs to provide a general appreciation of the subject. Only a rudimentary of some basic statistical concepts is assumed.
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Debunking Seven Terrorism Myths Using Statistics

by Andre Python

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 The book provides a brief introduction to seven aspects of terrorism. It starts with acknowledging the ambiguity of the concept of terrorism.
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Monitoring The Health Of Populations By Tracking Disease Outbreaks - Saving Humanity From The Next Plague

by Jr. Ronald D. Fricker e Steven E Rigdon

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 Not since the Spanish flu have citizens of developed counties experienced such a large-scale disease outbreak. One reason is the success of the public health community in tracking and identifying disease outbreaks. This book is the story of the application of statistics for disease detection and tracking.
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Measuring Society

by Chaitra H. Nagaraja

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This book is a short, accessible guide to six topics: jobs, house prices, inequality, prices for goods and services, poverty, and deprivation. Each relates to concepts we use on a personal level to form an understanding of the society in which we live: We need a job, a place to live, and food to eat.
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Measuring Society

by Chaitra H. Nagaraja

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This book is a short, accessible guide to six topics: jobs, house prices, inequality, prices for goods and services, poverty, and deprivation. Each relates to concepts we use on a personal level to form an understanding of the society in which we live: We need a job, a place to live, and food to eat.
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Improving Your Ncaa(R) Bracket With Statistics

by Tom Adams

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Improving Your NCAAÂ® Bracket with Statistics is both an easy-to-use tip sheet to improve your winning odds and an intellectual history of how statistical reasoning has been applied to the bracket pool using methods standard and innovative.
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Measuring Crime - Behind The Statistics

by Sharon L. Lohr

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This book looks at crime statistics from a statistical point of view, and evaluates the different sources of crime statistics with respect to completeness, e.g., missing data, measurement error, and sampling variability. The goal of the book is to promote statistical reasoning about statistics.
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Statistics And Health Care Fraud - How To Save Billions

by Tahir Ekin

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 This book will educate the general public about statistical methnods to improve medical fraud assessment by more accurateoverpayment estimation, representative sampling and use of data mining methods for fraud detection. In the United States, total health care related spending reached 2.9 trillion USD and $9255 per person in 2013.
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Data Visualization - Charts, Maps, And Interactive Graphics

by Robert Grant

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Data Visualization: Charts, Maps, and Interactive Graphics gives an overview of a wide range of techniques and challenges, while staying accessible to anyone interested in working with and understanding data.
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Visualizing Baseball

by Jim Albert

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Visualizing Baseball provides a visual exploration of the game of baseball. Graphical displays are used to show how measures of performance, at the team level and the individual level, have changed over the history of baseball. Graphs of career trajectories are helpful for understanding the rise and fall of individual performances of hitters and pitchers over time. One can measure the contribution of plays by the notion of runs expectancy. Graphs of runs expectancy are useful for understanding the importance of the game situation defined by the runners on base and number of outs. Also the runs measure can be used to quantify hitter and pitch counts and the win probabilities can be used to define the exciting plays during a baseball game. Special graphs are used to describe pitch data from the PitchFX system and batted ball data from the Statcast system. One can explore patterns of streaky performance and clutch play by the use of graphs, and special plots are used to predict final season batting averages based on data from the middle of the season.This book was written for several types of readers. Many baseball fans should be interested in the topics of the chapters, especially those who are interested in learning more about the quantitative side of baseball. Many statistical ideas are illustrated and so the graphs and accompanying insights can help in promoting statistical literacy at many levels. From a practitioner’s perspective, the chapters offer many illustrations of the use of a modern graphics system and R scripts are available on an accompanying website to reproduce and potentially improve the graphs in this book.
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Errors, Blunders, And Lies - How To Tell The Difference

by David S. Salsburg

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, "The Lady Tasting Tea," David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.
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Errors, Blunders, And Lies - How To Tell The Difference

by David S. (Yale University, New Haven, Ct, Usa) Salsburg

135,19€ + 10% CARD

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 In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, "The Lady Tasting Tea," David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.
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Errors, Blunders, And Lies - How To Tell The Difference

by David S. (Yale University, New Haven, Ct, Usa) Salsburg

40,55€ + 10% CARD

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 In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, "The Lady Tasting Tea," David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.
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Quantifying Counterfactual Military History

by A. Jamie (University Of York, Uk) Wood, Brennen Fagan, Christopher (University Of York, Uk) Price, Ian Horwood e Niall (University Of York, Uk) Mackay

33,79€

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 Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed under great pressure. How can we distinguish probable unrealized alternatives from improbable ones?

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