Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking who disguised themselves as men

who disguised themselves as men to sail under the Jolly Roger with the ill-fated Captain John Rackham

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the authors offer a clear presentation of the theory of metric and complete metric spaces

The final chapters address extremal problems—including convexity

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Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking who disguised themselves as menThis 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