Statistics Behind the Headlines (ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society) - Softcover

Bailer, A. John; Pennington, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367902524 ISBN 13: 9780367902520

Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022

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Constructed from series of headlines and articles connected to scientific or government report. Exploration of statistical concepts in report: source of data, issues with quantifying and measuring variables/features, representation and analysis of statistical models, discussion of whether headline and article fairly captured original report.

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A. John Bailer was University Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Statistics at Miami University and an affiliate member of the Departments of Biology, Media, Journalism and Film and Sociology and Gerontology. His interests include promoting quantitative literacy and enhancing connections between statistics and journalism which resulted in the awardwinning Stats + Stories podcast that he started with journalism colleagues in 2013.

Rosemary Pennington is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at Miami University. Her research examines the ways that marginalized groups are represented in media as well as how members of such groups may use media to challenge those representations. Pennington was a public broadcasting journalist working in Athens, Ohio, and Birmingham, Alabama.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367902524
• ISBN 13: 9780367902520
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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