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020 a| 9780472070077 (cloth : alk. paper);

020 a| 047207007X (cloth : alk. paper);

020 a| 9780472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Ziliak, Stephen Thomas,d| 1963-=| ^A966189;

245 14 a| The cult of statistical significance :b| how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives /c| by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey.;

300 a| xxiii, 321 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Economics, cognition, and society;

505 0 a| 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 calculus 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.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index.;

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650 0 a| Statisticsx| Social aspects.=| ^A1380;

650 0 a| Statistical hypothesis testingx| Social aspects.=| ^A26237;

700 1 a| McCloskey, Deirdre N.=| ^A400134;

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The cult of statistical significance : how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives / by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey.

Author/creator	Ziliak, Stephen Thomas, 1963-
Other author	McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Description	xxiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subjects	Economics--Statistical methods. Statistics--Social aspects. Statistical hypothesis testing--Social aspects.

Series	Economics, cognition, and society Economics, cognition, and society. ^A316509
Contents	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 calculus 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index.
LCCN	2007035401
ISBN	9780472070077 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	047207007X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0472050079 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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