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9780198523413

Statistics and Public Policy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198523413

  • ISBN10:

    0198523416

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-04-10
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

Statistics -- meaning statistical data, statistical methods, and statistical thinking -- play important and fascinating roles in public issues. Yet, these roles are sometimes unknown to statistics students and even professional statisticians. This book indicates some connections betweenstatistics and public issues such as government policy- or decision-making, public administration, law, and public debate. This book describes examples of statistics in public policy areas as disparate as national defence, AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights violations and scientificmanpower among other areas. Although a small amount of statistical training is assumed--a minimum of a half year of undergraduate level statistics--the emphasis is on ideas rather than technical detail or mathematical generality. This low technical content makes it accessible to not onlystatisticians but social scientists as well. It will also be a useful resource for teachers of first year statistics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Uses of Statistics for Description
Issues in DNA Fingerprinting
The Emerging Field of Human Rights Statistics
Making Defense Decisions: What Role Might a Statistical Perspective Play?
Ethics, Objectivity, and Politics: Statistics in a Public Policy Perspective
Normative Terminology: "Normal" in Statistics and Elsewhere
Data Collection
Statistics In Washington, 1935-1945
Periodic and Rolling Samples and Censuses
Numbering the People: Issues of Accuracy, Privacy and Open Government
Surveying Individuals with Disabilities
Constructed Social Networks in the Study of Diffusion
Uses of Statistics for Policy Analysis
Why Forecasts Fail and Policies Are Often Frustrated
Experimentation: Just Do It
Talents, Rewards and Professional Choice: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Statistical Analysis for the Masses
Index
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