Statistics : a guide to the unknown, The Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability of the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Biggest Public Health Experiment Ever : The 1954 Field Trial Of The Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine / Paul Meier -- Safety Of Anesthetics / Lincoln E. Moses And Frederick Mosteller -- The Metro Firm Trials And Ongoing Patient Randomization / Duncan Neuhauser -- A Health Insurance Experiment / Joseph P. Newhouse -- Cigarette Price, Smoking, And Excise Tax Policy / Kenneth E. Warner -- Does Inheritance Matter In Disease? / D.d. Reid -- The Plight Of The Whales / D.g. Chapman -- The Importance Of Being Human / W.w. Howells -- Statistical Proof Of Employment Discrimination / Sandy L. Zabell -- Statistics In Jury Selection : How To Avoid Unfavorable Jurors / S. James Press -- Measuring The Effects Of Social Innovations By Means Of Time Series / Donald T. Campbell. Election Night On Television / Richard F. Link -- Deciding Authorship / Frederick Mosteller And David L. Wallace -- Children's Recall Of Pictorial Information / Doris R. Entwisle And W.h. Huggins -- The Meaning Of Words / Joseph B. Kruskal -- The Sizes Of Things / Herbert A. Simon -- How Accountants Save Money By Sampling / John Neter -- Preliminary Evaluation Of A New Food Product / Elisabeth Street And Mavis B. Carroll -- Statistical Determination Of Numerical Color Tolerances / Lonnie C. Vance -- Making Essay Test Scores Fairer With Statistics / Henry I. Braun And Howard Wainer -- Statistics, Sports, And Some Other Things / Robert Hooke -- The Consumer Price Index / Philip J. Mccarthy. How To Count Better : Using Statistics To Improve The Census / Morris H. Hansen And Barbara A. Bailar -- How The Nation's Employment And Unemployment Estimates Are Made / Carol Boyd Leon And Philip L. Rones -- The Development And Analysis Of Economic Indicators / Geoffrey H. Moore -- Optimization And The Traveling Salesman Problem / Charles A. Whitney -- Estimating The Chance Of Large Earthquakes By Radiocarbon Dating And Statistical Modeling / David R. Brillinger -- Very Short Range Weather Forecasting Using Automated Observations / Robert G. Miller -- Statistics, The Sun, And The Stars / Charles A. Whitney. Edited By Judith M. Tanur ... [et Al.] (the Joint Committee On The Curriculum In Statistics And Probability Of The American Statistical Association And The National Council Of Teachers Of Mathematics). Includes Bibliographies And Index. 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 This collection of intriguing essays describes important applications of statistics and probability in many fields. Instead of teaching methods, the essays illustrate past accomplishments and current uses of statistics and probability. Surveys, questionnaires, experiments, and observational studies are also presented to help the student better understand the importance of the influence of statistics on each topic covered within the separate essays. A collection of original essays describing important, real-life applications of statistics and probability. This third edition constitutes a major revision: twelve new articles have been added and those articles carried over from previous editions have been updated.