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020 _a9780691137599 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 _aWainer, Howard.
245 1 0 _aPicturing the uncertain world :
_bhow to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display /
_cHoward Wainer.
260 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c2009.
300 _axviii, 244 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.
505 0 _aThe most dangerous equation -- Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 presidential election -- Stumbling on the path toward the visual communication of complexity -- Using graphs to simplify the complex : the Medicare drug plan as an example -- A political statistic -- A Catch-22 in assigning primary delegates -- Testing the disabled : using statistics to navigate between the Scylla of standards and the Charybdis of court decisions -- Ethnic bias or statistical artifact? : Freedle's folly -- Insignificant is not zero : musing on the College Board's understanding of uncertainty -- How long is short? -- Improving data displays -- Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations -- Depicting error -- The Mendel effect -- Truth is slower than fiction -- Galton's normal -- Nobody's perfect -- When form violates function -- A graphical legacy of Charles Joseph Minard : two jewels from the past -- La diffusion de quelques idâees : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.
650 0 _aUncertainty (Information theory)
_xGraphic methods.
650 0 _aCommunication in science
_xGraphic methods.
650 4 _aDesarrollo sostenible
_xEstudio y enseñanza.
650 4 _aComunicación en las ciencias ambientales.
650 4 _aPrimera Jornada de Catalogación.
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