Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/nbTe84 A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed By: Lawrence Hubert Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC Print ISBN: 9781439873687, 1439873682 eText ISBN: 9781439873694, 1439873690 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2012 Format: PDF Available from $ 23.18 USD SKU 9781439873694R90 Lauded for their contributions to statistics, psychology, and psychometrics, the authors make statistical methods relevant to readers’ day-to-day lives by including real historical situations that demonstrate the role of statistics in reasoning and decision making. The historical vignettes encompass the English case of Sally Clark, breast cancer screening, risk and gambling, the Federal Rules of Evidence, high-stakes testing, regulatory issues in medicine, difficulties with observational studies, ethics in human experiments, health statistics, and much more. In addition to these topics, seven U.S. Supreme Court decisions reflect the influence of statistical and psychometric reasoning and interpretation/misinterpretation. Exploring the intersection of ethics and statistics, this comprehensive guide assists readers in becoming critical and ethical consumers and producers of statistical reasoning and analyses. It will help them reason correctly and use statistics in an ethical manner. Additional ISBNs 9781138462465, 1138462462
