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0472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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047207007X (cloth : alk. paper)
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9780472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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9780472070077 (cloth : alk. paper)
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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The cult of statistical significance :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Ann Arbor :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Michigan Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxiii, 321 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Economics, cognition, and society
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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A significant problem -- Dieting "significance" and the case of Vioxx -- The sizeless stare of statistical significance -- What the sizeless scientists say in defense -- Better practice: [beta]-importance vs. [alpha]-"significance" -- A lot can go wrong in the use of significance tests in economics -- A lot did go wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s -- Is economic practice improving? -- How big is big in economics? -- What the sizeless stare costs, economically speaking -- How economics stays that way: the textbooks and the referees -- The not-boring rise of significance in psychology -- Psychometrics lacks power -- The psychology of psychological significance testing -- Medicine seeks a magic pill -- Rothman's revolt -- On drugs, disability, and death -- Edgeworth's significance -- "Take 3[sigma] as definitely significant": Pearson's rule -- Who sits on the egg of culculus canorus? Not Karl Pearson -- Gosset: the fable of the bee -- Fisher: the fable of the wasp -- How the wasp stung the bee and took over some sciences -- Eighty years of trained incapacity: how such a thing could happen -- What to do
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Economics-- Statistical methods
Statistical hypothesis testing-- Social aspects
Statistics-- Social aspects
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Ziliak, Stephen Thomas,1963-
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
McCloskey, Deirdre N
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20100309082013.0
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