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Author:

Wainer, Howard.

Title:

Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display / Howard Wainer.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xviii, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Uncertainty (Information theory)--Graphic methods.
Communication in science--Graphic methods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.

Contents:

The 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 idées : a master's voice -- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.

ISBN:

0691137595 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691137599 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008053529

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)