I hate statistics

Nicolaie Mihaiescu ()

Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine, 2016, vol. 7, issue 2, 32-33

Abstract: Statistics play a major role in economy, being strongly associated with facts, but it is not necessarily that those facts show the truth. There is a the dark side of statistics. Recently I was stricken again by two horrible economic dat. The Romanian home trade network almost disappeared and the list of bad statistic is wide open.

Keywords: Statistics; Pareto Principle; European policies; Romanian home trade network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 E61 L81 M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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