A broadly accessible introduction to statistical techniques and their misuse in explaining everyday life situations. Includes a step by step explanation of statistical techniques and applications of these techniques as well as their abuses by the advertising industry, the media, and the government.

Statistics for Social Change

Business & Money

HORWITZ, LUCY

Ferleger, Lou

Finance

South End Press

Statistics for Social Change is a broadly accessible introduction to statistical techniques and their misuse in explaining everyday life situations. Each chapter of the book is divided into two parts. In the first part there is a step by step explanation of statistical techniques, including the logic of statistics, percentages, graphs, averages, index numbers, variability, probability, estimation, regression and correlation analysis. In the second part, the authors provide applications of these techniques as well as show how they are abused by the advertising industry, the media, and the government when selling their products and policies to the American people. This is a book for everyone who wants to get a handle on the world and the ways it is statistically distorted.

Statistics For The Social Sciences

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Statistics For Social Change

Black Rose Books

Random Thoughts from an Aging Mind

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Xlibris, Corp.

Death Among the Singles

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Death at Clover High

<p>Death at Clover High is an equally mind-blowing and educational fiction about a high school's baffling death and the student's brain-busting algebra class In this proficiently written self-contained book, Horwitz will take the readers to two different but solidly connected situations. A high school student at Clover High is found dead in the lavatory, with her head thrown back, mouth open, and eyes looking completely blank. The situation elicits questions and confusion, and leads few other students to investigate. While the mysterious death continues to infuse anxiety and puzzlement among the students, the Algebra class is also facing its own numerical battle. Each meeting presents increasingly complicated algebra problems from signed numbers and absolute values to equations and variables to linear equations, inequalities, and to quadratic equations that appraise each student's intelligence. How algebra relates in analyzing and solving the murder mystery is quite surprising.</p>

Xlibris

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