Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown

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Preface ......Page 3 Foreword to the Third Edition ......Page 7 Contents ......Page 9 Essays Classified by Data Sources ......Page 14 Essays Classified by Statistical Tools ......Page 17 Part One: Our Biologic World ......Page 24 The biggest public health experiment ever / Paul Meier ......Page 26 Safety of anesthetics / Lincoln E. Moses, Frederick Mosteller ......Page 38 The Metro firm trials and ongoing patient randomization / Duncan Neuhauser -- A health insurance experiment ......Page 48 A health insurance experiment / Joseph P. Newhouse ......Page 54 Cigarette price, smoking, and excise tax policy / Kenneth E. Warner ......Page 64 Does inheritance matter in disease? / D.D. Reid ......Page 76 The plight of the whales / D.G. Chapman ......Page 83 The importance of being human / W.W. Howells ......Page 91 Part Two: Our Political World ......Page 100 Statistical proof of employment discrimination / Sandy L. Zabell ......Page 102 Statistics in jury selection / S. James Press ......Page 110 Measuring the effects of social innovations by means of time series / Donald T. Campbell ......Page 116 Election night on television / Richard F. Link ......Page 127 Part Three: Our Social World ......Page 136 Deciding authorship / Frederick Mosteller, David L. Wallace ......Page 138 Children's recall of pictorial information / Doris R. Entwisle, W. H. Huggins ......Page 149 The meaning of words / Joseph B. Kruskal ......Page 155 The sizes of things / Herbert A. Simon ......Page 165 How accountants save money by sampling / John Neter ......Page 174 Preliminary evaluation of a new food product / Elisabeth Street, Mavis B. Carroll ......Page 184 Statistical determination of numerical color tolerances / Lonnie C. Vance ......Page 193 Making essay test scores fairer with statistics / Henry I. Braun, Howard Wainer ......Page 201 Statistics, sports, and some other things / Robert Hooke ......Page 211 The consumer price index / Philip J. McCarthy ......Page 221 How to count better / Morris H. Hansen, Barbara A. Bailar ......Page 231 How the nation's employment and unemployment estimates are made / Carol Boyd Leon, Philip L. Rones ......Page 241 The development and analysis of economic indicators / Geoffrey H. Moore ......Page 250 Part Four: Our Physical World ......Page 262 Optimization and the traveling salesman problem / Charles A. Whitney ......Page 264 Estimating the chance of large earthquakes by radiocarbon dating and statistical modeling / David R. Brillinger ......Page 272 Very short range weather forecasting using automated observations / Robert G. Miller ......Page 284 Statistics, the Sun, and the stars / Charles A. Whitney ......Page 291 Index ......Page 299