Uses and Misuses of Statistics

Chakrabarty K C

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Abstract: Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2012 as part of the 150th Birth Aniversary Celebrations of Mahanama Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya].

Keywords: Statistics; physics; India; Kautilya’s Arthasastra; agriculture; population; economic activities; covering villages and towns; taxes; fertilizer; pesticides; densities; soil qualities; and growth of output; population; business; economics; education; IQ; psychology; psychometry; environmental; inflation; prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-03
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