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Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display
- Title
- Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display / Howard Wainer.
- Author
- Wainer, Howard.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.
- Contents
- The most dangerous equation -- Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 presidential election -- Stumbling on the path toward the visual communication of complexity -- Using graphs to simplify the complex : the Medicare drug plan as an example -- A political statistic -- A Catch-22 in assigning primary delegates -- Testing the disabled : using statistics to navigate between the Scylla of standards and the Charybdis of court decisions -- Ethnic bias or statistical artifact? : Freedle's folly -- Insignificant is not zero : musing on the College Board's understanding of uncertainty -- How long is short? -- Improving data displays -- Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations -- Depicting error -- The Mendel effect -- Truth is slower than fiction -- Galton's normal -- Nobody's perfect -- When form violates function -- A graphical legacy of Charles Joseph Minard : two jewels from the past -- La diffusion de quelques idées : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-3119
- ISBN
- 9780691137599 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0691137595 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008053529
- OCLC
- 276340779
- Author
- Wainer, Howard.
- Title
- Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display / Howard Wainer.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3119