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Dancing on the tails of the bell curve : readings on the joy and power of statistics / edited by Richard Altschuler

Published
Los Angeles : Gordian Knot Books, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
154 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Altschuler, Richard

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: The "Godliness" of Statistics / Florence Nightingale -- The Magnificence of the Mean / Adolphe Quetelet -- Probability: The Key to Reason and Religion / Simon Laplace -- The "Charms" of Statistics / Sir Francis Galton -- How Statistics Helped Make Biology a Science / Karl Pearson -- Darwin: The Reluctant Mathematician / Julie Rehmeyer -- Statistical View of the United States / D. B. Debow -- The Importance of Statistics to the United States Census and the World / James A. Garfield -- The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1884-1984) / William T. Moye -- Statistics and Government / Wesley C. Mitchell -- How Statistics Helped Desegregate America's Public School System / Kenneth Clark -- The 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking -- 2013: The International Year of ... Statistics / Marie Davidian -- BLS 125th Anniversary -- The Necessity of Statistics in Highway Construction Management: The Case of Arkansas / Harold Rothbart -- Could a Statistic on Redistricting Have a Game-Changing Effect on American Politics? / Thomas R. Belin -- The Importance of "Ag" Estimates -- Data Inquiry and Analysis for Educational Reform / Howard H. Wade -- Interview / Francesca Dominici -- The Joy of Research Discovery with Statistics / Allan Geliebter -- Smoking in Movies / Michael Tynan -- Statistics, Moneyball and "Sabermetrics" -- Data-Driven Equity in Urban Schools / Wendy Schwartz -- Statistics and the Fashion Industry.
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ISBN
9781884092916 (pbk.)
1884092918 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references: pages 145-154.
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