Author(s): Judith M. Tanur, Frederick Mosteller, William H. Kruskal, Erich L. Lehmann, Richard F. Link, Richard S. Pieters, Gerald R. Rising, (The Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability of the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Wadsworth
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: xxv+284
City: Belmont
Preface ......Page 3
Foreword to the Third Edition ......Page 7
Contents ......Page 9
Essays Classified by Data Sources ......Page 14
Essays Classified by Statistical Tools ......Page 17
Part One: Our Biologic World ......Page 24
The biggest public health experiment ever / Paul Meier ......Page 26
Safety of anesthetics / Lincoln E. Moses, Frederick Mosteller ......Page 38
The Metro firm trials and ongoing patient randomization / Duncan Neuhauser -- A health insurance experiment ......Page 48
A health insurance experiment / Joseph P. Newhouse ......Page 54
Cigarette price, smoking, and excise tax policy / Kenneth E. Warner ......Page 64
Does inheritance matter in disease? / D.D. Reid ......Page 76
The plight of the whales / D.G. Chapman ......Page 83
The importance of being human / W.W. Howells ......Page 91
Part Two: Our Political World ......Page 100
Statistical proof of employment discrimination / Sandy L. Zabell ......Page 102
Statistics in jury selection / S. James Press ......Page 110
Measuring the effects of social innovations by means of time series / Donald T. Campbell ......Page 116
Election night on television / Richard F. Link ......Page 127
Part Three: Our Social World ......Page 136
Deciding authorship / Frederick Mosteller, David L. Wallace ......Page 138
Children's recall of pictorial information / Doris R. Entwisle, W. H. Huggins ......Page 149
The meaning of words / Joseph B. Kruskal ......Page 155
The sizes of things / Herbert A. Simon ......Page 165
How accountants save money by sampling / John Neter ......Page 174
Preliminary evaluation of a new food product / Elisabeth Street, Mavis B. Carroll ......Page 184
Statistical determination of numerical color tolerances / Lonnie C. Vance ......Page 193
Making essay test scores fairer with statistics / Henry I. Braun, Howard Wainer ......Page 201
Statistics, sports, and some other things / Robert Hooke ......Page 211
The consumer price index / Philip J. McCarthy ......Page 221
How to count better / Morris H. Hansen, Barbara A. Bailar ......Page 231
How the nation's employment and unemployment estimates are made / Carol Boyd Leon, Philip L. Rones ......Page 241
The development and analysis of economic indicators / Geoffrey H. Moore ......Page 250
Part Four: Our Physical World ......Page 262
Optimization and the traveling salesman problem / Charles A. Whitney ......Page 264
Estimating the chance of large earthquakes by radiocarbon dating and statistical modeling / David R. Brillinger ......Page 272
Very short range weather forecasting using automated observations / Robert G. Miller ......Page 284
Statistics, the Sun, and the stars / Charles A. Whitney ......Page 291
Index ......Page 299
