Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them)
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Praise for the First Edition of Common Errors in Statistics
" . . . let me recommend Common Errors to all those who interactwith statistics, whatever their level of statistical understanding. . . "
--Stats 40
" . . . written . . . for the people who define good practicerather than seek to emulate it."
--Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
" . . . highly informative, enjoyable to read, and of potential useto a broad audience. It is a book that should be on the referenceshelf of many statisticians and researchers."
--The American Statistician
" . . . I found this book the most easily readable statistics bookever. The credit for this certainly goes to Phillip Good."
--E-STREAMS
A tried-and-true guide to the proper application ofstatistics
Now in a second edition, the highly readable Common Errors inStatistics (and How to Avoid Them) lays a mathematically rigorousand readily accessible foundation for understanding statisticalprocedures, problems, and solutions. This handy field guideanalyzes common mistakes, debunks popular myths, and helps readersto choose the best and most effective statistical technique foreach of their tasks.
Written for both the newly minted academic and the professional whouses statistics in their work, the book covers creating a researchplan, formulating a hypothesis, specifying sample size, checkingassumptions, interpreting p-values and confidence intervals,building a model, data mining, Bayes' Theorem, the bootstrap, andmany other topics. The Second Edition has been extensively revisedto include:
* Additional charts and graphs
* Two new chapters, Interpreting Reports and Which RegressionMethod?
* New sections on practical versus statistical significance andnonuniqueness in multivariate regression
* Added material from the authors' online courses atstatistics.com
* New material on unbalanced designs, report interpretation, andalternative modeling methods
With a final emphasis on both finding solutions and the great valueof statistics when applied in the proper context, this book iseminently useful to students and professionals in the fields ofresearch, industry, medicine, and government.
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Phillip I. Good
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"In summary, I think the book does achieve its mission tohighlight common errors in statistical analysis." (Significance, 1 December 2006)
"I regard this interesting book to be of potential use to abroad audience." (Statistical Papers, August 2007)
"A very engaging and valuable book for all who use statistics inany settings." (CHOICE, October 2006)
"...a concise guide to the basics of statistics, replete withexamples, explaining in common language...a valuable reference formore advanced statisticians as well..." (MAA Reviews, June22, 2006)
"All statistics students and teachers will find in thisbook a friendly and intelligent guide to...applied statisticsin practice." (Journal Of Applied Statistics, April2007)
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