The Cult of Statistical Significance - A Review
Published By: IGIDR on eSS | Published Date: September, 01 , 2014A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard
Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises
important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented upon. For this
review, several other works on statistics and the author's personal experiences as a teacher of
undergraduate econometrics is taken
Author(s): Sripad Motiram | Posted on: Sep 29, 2014 | Views(711) | Download (667)