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Making the Numbers Work: A Few Patterns for Quantitative Reasoning
| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Rüping, Andreas |
| Abstract | As opposed to intuitive thinking, quantitative analysis gives the impression of being objective and reliable. While some of this is true, it's also wise to apply quantitative methods with care. Statistics can be difficult to apply and are in fact easily misused. This paper presents some fundamental rules well-known from scientific statistics. These rules are nowhere near sufficient for a fully-fledged statistical analysis, however, they do represent a set of very helpful instruments in many practical cases. Shaped as patterns, these rules can be applied whenever numbers enter our everyday reasoning. Among other domains, they can be applied in IT projects, as is shown with three concrete examples. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 5 |
| Page Count | 5 |
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| ISBN | 9781450326605 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2676680.2676684 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2014-04-10 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Decision-making Measurement Quantitative reasoning Graceful aggregation Ceteris paribus Analysis Statistics Representative sample |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
