On Classifications of Fallacies

Classifications of undernutrition--their limitations and fallacies.

During the last few years, there have been several attempts at 'classifications' or 'gradings' of the severity of undernutrition in children. In most of these exercises, the severity (and/or the 'type') of growth retardation observed in the children has been used as the yard-stick. These classifications have found wide application in many developing countries for the dual purposes of (a) quanti...

On Classifications of Random Polynomials

 Let $ a_0 (omega), a_1 (omega), a_2 (omega), dots, a_n (omega)$ be a sequence of independent random variables defined on a fixed probability space $(Omega, Pr, A)$. There are many known results for the expected number of real zeros of a polynomial $ a_0 (omega) psi_0(x)+ a_1 (omega)psi_1 (x)+, a_2 (omega)psi_2 (x)+...

Essays on High-status Fallacies

Title of document: ESSAYS ON HIGH-STATUS FALLACIES Daniel Malter, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed by: Professor Brent Goldfarb, Ph.D. Department of Management & Organization Robert H. Smith School of Business This dissertation comprises three essays. Each essay challenges some of the commonly held beliefs about and provides novel insights into the role of status in markets. In essay 1, I st...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

menon are almost identical, and yet we never dream of calling the process general, or attributing it to a general cause. It is true its " prevalence" may be influenced by general conditions. Famine or sickness would render it less general; and plenty and health more general; yet it would be an absurdity to generalize the phenomenon or rather the aggregate of phenomena, as we are apt to treat th...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology