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

By: Wainer, HowardMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Description: xviii, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691137599 (cloth : alk. paper); 0691137595 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Graphic methods | Communication in science -- Graphic methodsDDC classification: 003/.54 LOC classification: Q375 | .W35 2009Other classification: SK 850 Online resources: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 idées : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.
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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 idées : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.

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