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Statistics : a guide to the unknown
- Title
- Statistics : a guide to the unknown / edited by Judith M. Tanur [and others] ; The Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability of the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
- Publication
- Pacific Grove, Calif. : Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QA276.16 .S84 1989 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxv, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole statistics/probability series
- Uniform Title
- Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole statistics/probability series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- The biggest public health experiment ever : the 1954 field trial of the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine / Paul Meier -- Safety of anesthetics / Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller -- The Metro firm trials and ongoing patient randomization / Duncan Neuhauser -- A health insurance experiment / Joseph P. Newhouse -- Cigarette price, smoking, and excise tax policy / Kenneth E. Warner -- Does inheritance matter in disease? / D.D. Reid -- The plight of the whales / D.G. Chapman -- The importance of being human / W.W. Howells -- Statistical proof of employment discrimination / Sandy L. Zabell -- Statistics in jury selection : how to avoid unfavorable jurors / S. James Press -- Measuring the effects of social innovations by means of time series / Donald T. Campbell.
- Election night on television / Richard F. Link -- Deciding authorship / Frederick Mosteller and David L. Wallace -- Children's recall of pictorial information / Doris R. Entwisle and W.H. Huggins -- The meaning of words / Joseph B. Kruskal -- The sizes of things / Herbert A. Simon -- How accountants save money by sampling / John Neter -- Preliminary evaluation of a new food product / Elisabeth Street and Mavis B. Carroll -- Statistical determination of numerical color tolerances / Lonnie C. Vance -- Making essay test scores fairer with statistics / Henry I. Braun and Howard Wainer -- Statistics, sports, and some other things / Robert Hooke -- The consumer price index / Philip J. McCarthy.
- How to count better : using statistics to improve the Census / Morris H. Hansen and Barbara A. Bailar -- How the nation's employment and unemployment estimates are made / Carol Boyd Leon and Philip L. Rones -- The development and analysis of economic indicators / Geoffrey H. Moore -- Optimization and the traveling salesman problem / Charles A. Whitney -- Estimating the chance of large earthquakes by radiocarbon dating and statistical modeling / David R. Brillinger -- Very short range weather forecasting using automated observations / Robert G. Miller -- Statistics, the Sun, and the stars / Charles A. Whitney.
- ISBN
- 0534094929
- 9780534094928
- LCCN
- 88025889
- OCLC
- ocm18414841
- 18414841
- SCSB-1714216
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library