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Pelican Books
Use and abuse of statistics
This book introduces the readers, in readily comprehensible terms, to the world of averages, probabilities, percentages, indexes, samples, and trends. Explaining the meaning of such expressions, the author shows how and for what purpose statistics may usefully be employed and how they should not be employed.
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