Statistics as principled argument / Robert P. Abelson.
The author delves into the too-often-dismissed problems of interpreting quantitative data and then presenting them in the context of a coherent story about one's research ... The focus of the book is that the purpose of statistics is to organize a useful argument from quantitative evidence, usi...
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Hillsdale, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum Associates,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Abelson's laws
- Making claims with statistics
- Elementary arguments and the role of chance
- Magnitude of effects
- Styles of rhetoric
- On suspecting fishiness
- Articulation of results : ticks and buts
- Generality of effects
- Interestingness of argument
- Credibility of argument.