
Statistics Done Wrong
The Woefully Complete Guide
by Alex Reinhart
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appears in Statistics, Science, and Nonfiction.
Everyone knows that abuse of statistics is rampant in popular media. Politicians and marketers present shoddy evidence for dubious claims all the time. But smart people make mistakes too, and when it comes to statistics, plenty of otherwise great scientistsyes, even those published in peerreviewed journalsare doing statistics wrong."Statistics...
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