How to Lie with Statistics 统计数字会撒谎 内容简介 This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unintentional), graphs, indexes, and other tools of democratic persuasion. 基本信息 作者:Darrell Huff 出版社: Penguin (1991年12月12日) 丛书名: Penguin Business 平装: 128页 语种: 英语 ISBN: 0140136290 条形码: 9780140136296 商品尺寸: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm 商品重量: 113 g
The focus of this book is geometric properties of general sets and measures in Euclidean spaces. Applications of this theory include fractal-type objects, such as strange attractors for dynamical systems, and those fractals used as models in the sciences. The author provides a firm and unified foundation for the subject and develops all the main tools used in its study, such as covering theorems, Hausdorff measures and their relations to Riesz capacities and Fourier transforms. The last third of the book is devoted to the Besicovitch-Federer theory of rectifiable sets, which form in a sense the largest class of subsets of Euclidean space possessing many of the properties of smooth surfaces.