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Statistics and public policy
- Title
- Statistics and public policy / edited by Bruce D. Spence.
- Publication
- New York : Clarendon Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Spence, Bruce D.
- Description
- xviii, 284 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Uses of Statistics for description. 1. Issues in DNA fingerprinting / Herman Chernoff. 2. The emerging field of human rights statistics / Thomas B. Jabine. 3. Making defense decisions: what role might a statistical perspective play? / David S. C. Chu and Nancy L. Spruill. 4. Ethics, objectivity, and politics: statistics in a public policy perspective / Stephen E. Fienberg. 5. Normative terminology: 'normal' in statistics and elsewhere / William H. Kruskal and Stephen M. Stigler -- II. Data collection. 6. Statistics in Washington, 1935-1945 / W. Allen Wallis. 7. Periodic and rolling samples and censuses / Leslie Kish. 8. Numbering the people: issues of accuracy, privacy and open government / Philip Redfern. 9. Surveying individuals with disabilities / Allan R. Sampson. 10. Constructed social networks in the study of diffusion / James S. Coleman -- III. Uses of statistics for policy analysis. 11. Why forecasts fail and policies are often frustrated / Nathan Keyfitz.
- 12. Experimentation: just do it! / Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller. 13. Talents, rewards and professional choice: a general equilibrium analysis / Stephen P. Dresch and Kenneth R. Janson. 14. Statistical analysis for the masses / Sam L. Savage.
- ISBN
- 0198523416 (hardbound)
- LCCN
- 96036204
- OCLC
- 35280669
- ocm35280669
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries