wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty
ISBN: 9780470890448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An original account of willful ignorance and how this principle relates to modern probability and statistical methods Through a series of colorful stories about great thinkers and the problems they chose to solve, the author traces the historical evolution of probability and explains how statistical methods have helped to propel scientific research. However, the past success of statistics has depended on vast, deliberate simplifications amounting to willful ignorance, and this very success now threatens future advances in medicine, the social sciences, and other... An original account of willful ignorance and how this principle relates to modern probability and statistical methods Through ... |
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159,89 zł |
Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election
ISBN: 9780804748551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Models of Voting in Presidential Elections offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote choice at play in the 2000 presidential election. Unlike other books that focus exclusively on the drama and unusual circumstances of the 2000 election, this account examines larger issues surrounding the election and its outcome, asking why an election that traditional forecasting models predicted would provide a strong and clear victory for one side was ultimately so close. Using a variety of models, the authors explore why the election was so...
Models of Voting in Presidential Elections offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote cho...
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608,63 zł |
Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s
ISBN: 9780521585187 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Congress is a great stage, and its members play their roles under the spotlight of a skeptical public, an acerbic media, and a plethora of interested parties. The 104th Congress, the first in four decades to be Republican controlled, is a watershed in congressional history. Using the theater metaphor to characterize the actions of Congress and to help make the institution more understandable, congressional life and behavior is dissected and placed in the broader context of changes in Congress in the 1990s. This book underscores the relationship among Congress and the other branches of the...
Congress is a great stage, and its members play their roles under the spotlight of a skeptical public, an acerbic media, and a plethora of interested ...
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379,10 zł |
Bias and Causation: Models and Judgment for Valid Comparisons
ISBN: 9780470286395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A one-of-a-kind resource on identifying and dealing with bias in statistical research on causal effects
Do cell phones cause cancer? Can a new curriculum increase student achievement? Determining what the real causes of such problems are, and how powerful their effects may be, are central issues in research across various fields of study. Some researchers are highly skeptical of drawing causal conclusions except in tightly controlled randomized experiments, while others discount the threats posed by different sources of bias, even in less rigorous observational studies. Bias and... A one-of-a-kind resource on identifying and dealing with bias in statistical research on causal effects
Do cell phones cause cancer? Can a n... |
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607,26 zł |
Central Tendency and Variability
ISBN: 9780803940079 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Using an expository style that builds from simpler to more complex topics, this text explains how to measure the centre and variation on a single variable. It also considers ways to examine the distribution of variables and measure the spread of a variable.
Using an expository style that builds from simpler to more complex topics, this text explains how to measure the centre and variation on a single vari...
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183,59 zł |
The Total Survey Error Approach: A Guide to the New Science of Survey Research
ISBN: 9780226891286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1939, George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion published a pamphlet optimistically titled "The New Science of Public Opinion Measurement." At the time, though, survey research was in its infancy, and only now, six decades later, can public opinion measurement be appropriately called a science, based in part on the development of the total survey error approach.
Herbert F. Weisberg's handbook presents a unified method for conducting good survey research centered on the various types of errors that can occur in surveys from measurement and nonresponse error to coverage and... In 1939, George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion published a pamphlet optimistically titled "The New Science of Public Opinion Measuremen...
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198,83 zł |
Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election
ISBN: 9780804748568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Models of Voting in Presidential Elections offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote choice at play in the 2000 presidential election. Unlike other books that focus exclusively on the drama and unusual circumstances of the 2000 election, this account examines larger issues surrounding the election and its outcome, asking why an election that traditional forecasting models predicted would provide a strong and clear victory for one side was ultimately so close. Using a variety of models, the authors explore why the election was so...
Models of Voting in Presidential Elections offers a comprehensive scholarly examination of the determinants of voter participation and vote cho...
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146,86 zł |
Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s
ISBN: 9780521585255 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Congress is a great stage, and its members play their roles under the spotlight of a skeptical public, an acerbic media, and a plethora of interested parties. The 104th Congress, the first in four decades to be Republican controlled, is a watershed in congressional history. Using the theater metaphor to characterize the actions of Congress and to help make the institution more understandable, congressional life and behavior is dissected and placed in the broader context of changes in Congress in the 1990s. This book underscores the relationship among Congress and the other branches of the...
Congress is a great stage, and its members play their roles under the spotlight of a skeptical public, an acerbic media, and a plethora of interested ...
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155,37 zł |
An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis
ISBN: 9780803974012 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAGE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAGE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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970,67 zł |
An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis
ISBN: 9780803974029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book describes how surveys are conducted in such a way that they can be believed, explains how to read statistical reports and analyze data and provides guidelines that are useful in evaluating polls.
This book describes how surveys are conducted in such a way that they can be believed, explains how to read statistical reports and analyze data and p...
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671,60 zł |