Understanding and using scientific evidence : how to critically evaluate data / / Richard Gott and Sandra Duggan
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| Autore: |
Gott Richard <1946->
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| Titolo: |
Understanding and using scientific evidence : how to critically evaluate data / / Richard Gott and Sandra Duggan
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 198 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 507.27 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - Philosophy |
| Evidence | |
| Altri autori: |
DugganSandra <1949->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - The Design of a simple investigation; Chapter 3 - Different types of variables; Chapter 4 - Other, and more complex, designs; Chapter 5 - Making the best use of tables and graphs; Chapter 6 - What do the data mean?; Chapter 7 - Are the measurements good enough?; Chapter 8 - Samples and populations; Chapter 9 - Lots of measurements; Chapter 10 - Data as part of evidence; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This text shows that there are things to understand about scientific evidences: difficult concepts about the structure of experiments; causality; repeatability and the validity and reliability of evidence upon which decisions have to be made. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Understanding and using scientific evidence |
| ISBN: | 9786610370559 |
| 9781446239452 | |
| 1446239454 | |
| 9780857020161 | |
| 0857020161 | |
| 9781280370557 | |
| 1280370556 | |
| 9781412932219 | |
| 1412932211 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910961713103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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