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The Cult of Statistical Significance How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

Paperback • 2008 • English

The Cult of Statistical Significance How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

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“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.” —Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics “With humor, insight, piercing logic and a nod to history, Ziliak and McClo...Show more

Econometrics and economic statistics
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9780472050079

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Cult of Statistical Significance How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

Format

Paperback

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