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Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display / Howard Wainer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691137599 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0691137595 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780691152677
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 003
LOC classification:
  • Q 375 W141p 2009
Contents:
The most dangerous equation -- Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 presidential election -- Stumbling on the path toward the visual communication of complexity -- Using graphs to simplify the complex : the Medicare drug plan as an example -- A political statistic -- A Catch-22 in assigning primary delegates -- Testing the disabled : using statistics to navigate between the Scylla of standards and the Charybdis of court decisions -- Ethnic bias or statistical artifact? : Freedle's folly -- Insignificant is not zero : musing on the College Board's understanding of uncertainty -- How long is short? -- Improving data displays -- Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations -- Depicting error -- The Mendel effect -- Truth is slower than fiction -- Galton's normal -- Nobody's perfect -- When form violates function -- A graphical legacy of Charles Joseph Minard : two jewels from the past -- La diffusion de quelques idâees : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 375 W141p 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000104949

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.

The most dangerous equation -- Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 presidential election -- Stumbling on the path toward the visual communication of complexity -- Using graphs to simplify the complex : the Medicare drug plan as an example -- A political statistic -- A Catch-22 in assigning primary delegates -- Testing the disabled : using statistics to navigate between the Scylla of standards and the Charybdis of court decisions -- Ethnic bias or statistical artifact? : Freedle's folly -- Insignificant is not zero : musing on the College Board's understanding of uncertainty -- How long is short? -- Improving data displays -- Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations -- Depicting error -- The Mendel effect -- Truth is slower than fiction -- Galton's normal -- Nobody's perfect -- When form violates function -- A graphical legacy of Charles Joseph Minard : two jewels from the past -- La diffusion de quelques idâees : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.

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