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COMMON MISTEAKS MISTAKES IN USING STATISTICS: Spotting and Avoiding Them

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Sampling the Wrong Population


Use Mary Meyers airbags study as example of “which population?” See http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~meyer/airbags.htm Also http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/25466.php? www.utstat.utoronto.ca/reid/research/windsor.pdf -?

See 11/13/09 email from Bob Lovell (copy in this folder) re bad (deliberate?) example of comparison group for studying head injuries in pro football players