Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking The final chapters address extremal

The final chapters address extremal problems—including convexity

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Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking The final chapters address extremalThis book was written with a dual purpose: first, the author was motivated to relieve his distress over the faulty conclusions drawn from the frequent misuse of relatively simple statistical tools such as percents, graphs, and averages. Second, his objective was to create a nontechnical book that would help people make better informed decisions by increasing their ability to judge the quality of statistical evidence. This volume achieves both, serving