Howard Wainer is distinguished research scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners and adjunct professor of statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. For twenty-one years, he was principal research scientist at Educational Testing Service. His many books include
Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display and
Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures (both Princeton).
22 Ebooks por Howard Wainer
Howard Wainer: Uneducated Guesses
What statistical evidence shows us about our misguided educational policies Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how …
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Howard Wainer: Graphic Discovery
Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern inve …
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Howard Wainer: Medical Illuminations
Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there’s no …
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Howard Wainer: Medical Illuminations
Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there’s no …
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Eric T. Bradlow & Howard Wainer: Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications
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Howard Wainer: Drawing Inferences From Self-selected Samples
This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of …
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Howard Wainer: Drawing Inferences From Self-selected Samples
This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of …
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Howard Wainer: Visual Revelations
To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an exploration and celeb …
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Howard Wainer: Visual Revelations
To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an exploration and celeb …
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€67.97
Neil J. Dorans & Ronald Flaugher: Computerized Adaptive Testing
This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on …
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Neil J. Dorans & Ronald Flaugher: Computerized Adaptive Testing
This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on …
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€65.40
Henry I. Braun & Howard Wainer: Test Validity
Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity. This book addresses the present and future concerns raised by these developments. Topics …
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€62.27
Henry I. Braun & Howard Wainer: Test Validity
Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity. This book addresses the present and future concerns raised by these developments. Topics …
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Paul W. Holland & Howard Wainer: Differential Item Functioning
Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and …
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Paul W. Holland & Howard Wainer: Differential Item Functioning
Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and …
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€56.54
Lawrence Hubert & Howard Wainer: Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed
Exploring the intersection of ethics and statistics, this comprehensive guide illustrates the proper use of probabilistic and statistical reasoning in the behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. …
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Howard Wainer: Drawing Inferences from Self-Selected Samples
During the course of the rhetoric surrounding the 1984 Presidential election campaign in the United States there were a variety of statements made that gave me pause. For example, I heard candidate …
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Howard Wainer: Picturing the Uncertain World
In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he’s back with Picturing the Uncertain World, a b …
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