TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ziliak,Stephen Thomas
AU  - McCloskey,Deirdre N.
TI  - The cult of statistical significance: how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives 
T2  - Economics, cognition, and society
SN  - 047207007X
AV  - HB137 .Z55 2008
U1  - 330.015195 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Economics
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Statistical hypothesis testing
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index; A significant problem -- Dieting "significance" and the case of Vioxx -- The sizeless stare of statistical significance -- What the sizeless scientists say in defense -- Better practice: [beta]-importance vs. [alpha]-"significance" -- A lot can go wrong in the use of significance tests in economics -- A lot did go wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s -- Is economic practice improving? -- How big is big in economics? -- What the sizeless stare costs, economically speaking -- How economics stays that way: the textbooks and the referees -- The not-boring rise of significance in psychology -- Psychometrics lacks power -- The psychology of psychological significance testing -- Medicine seeks a magic pill -- Rothman's revolt -- On drugs, disability, and death -- Edgeworth's significance -- "Take 3[sigma] as definitely significant": Pearson's rule -- Who sits on the egg of culculus canorus? Not Karl Pearson -- Gosset: the fable of the bee -- Fisher: the fable of the wasp -- How the wasp stung the bee and took over some sciences -- Eighty years of trained incapacity: how such a thing could happen -- What to do
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007035401-d.html
ER  -