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How to lie with statistics

Title: How to lie with statistics / by Darrell Huff ; illustrated by Irving Geis.
Author: Huff, Darrell.
Publication: New York : Norton, 1993.

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Description

142 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm

Subject

Statistics

Contents

1. The Sample with the Built-in Bias -- 2. The Well-Chosen Average -- 3. The Little Figures That Are Not There -- 4. Much Ado about Practically Nothing -- 5. The Gee-Whiz Graph -- 6. The One-Dimensional Picture -- 7. The Semiattached Figure -- 8. Post Hoc Rides Again -- 9. How to Statisticulate -- 10. How to Talk Back to a Statistic.

ISBN

0393310728 (pbk.)
9780393310726 (pbk.)

LCCN

93028401

OCLC

ocm28507867

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries