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The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre McCloskey , Stephen Thomas Ziliak

Book information

Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0472050079, 9780472050079
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1416143 bytes)
Series
Economics, Cognition & Society
Pages
384\349
Time added
2014-08-28 12:04:23

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The Cult of Statistical Significance "McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to."--Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Pri... Full description

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