A Field guide to lies and statistics a neuroscientist on how to make sense of a complex world
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Viking an imprint of Penguin Books
[2016]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991006697319706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Introduction: Thinking, critically
- Plausibility
- Fun with averages
- Axis shenanigans
- Hijinks with how numbers are reported
- How numbers are collected
- Probabilities
- How do we know?
- Identifying expertise
- Overlooked, undervalued alternative explanations
- Counterknowledge
- How science works
- Logical fallacies
- Knowing what you don't know
- Bayesian thinking in science and in court
- Four case studies
- Conclusion: Discovering your own
- Appendix: Application of Bayes' Rule."
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