This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Best, Joel (2001). Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. University of California Press.
Desrosières, Alain (2004). The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning, Trans. Camille Naish, Harvard University Press.
Huff, Darrell and Geis, Irving, (1993) How to Lie With Statistics (Paperback reissue) W. H. Norton, New York
Tijms, Henk (2004). Understanding Probability: Chance Rules in Everyday life. Cambridge University Press.
Dobell, Clifford, ed. 1960. Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his ‘‘Little Animals’’, Dover Publications, N.Y.
Festinger, Leon, 1964. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World, Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html (biography of Leeuwenhoek from U. of CA, Berkeley)
http://www.euronet.nl/users/warnar/leeuwenhoek.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Lockshin, R.A. (2007). Evaluating Data. In: Lockshin, R.A. (eds) The Joy of Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6099-1_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6099-1_9
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-6098-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-6099-1
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)