An edition of The cult of statistical significance (2008)
The Cult of Statistical Significance
How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
By Stephen Thomas Ziliak,Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publish Date
January 5, 2008
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
eng
Pages
321
Description:
Another report from the struggle to dethrone Fisherite statistical-significance tests as a measure of the quality and importance of experimental results.
subjects: Statistical methods, Statistical hypothesis testing, Social aspects, Economics, Social aspects of Statistics, Statistics, Social aspects of Statistical hypothesis testing, Non-parametric statistics, 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research, Statistical reliability, Scientific policy, Statistical tests, Economics, statistical methods
People: W. Edwards Deming, Ronald A. Fisher, William S. Gosset, William Kruskal, Jerzy Neyman, Egon S. Pearson, Karl Pearson
Times: the 20th century