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100 1 _aZiliak, Stephen Thomas,
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245 1 4 _aThe cult of statistical significance :
_bhow the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives /
_cby Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey.
264 1 _aAnn Arbor :
_bUniversity of Michigan Press,
_c[2008]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _axxiii, 321 pages :
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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490 1 _aEconomics, cognition, and society
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.
505 0 _aA 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.
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650 0 _aEconomics
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650 0 _aStatistics
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650 0 _aStatistical hypothesis testing
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830 0 _aEconomics, cognition, and society.
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