Philosophy of statistics
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Elsevier,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Handbook of the philosophy of science ;
v. 7. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Probability & statistics
- pt. 2. Philosophical controversies about conditional probability
- pt. 3. Four paradigms of statistics
- pt. 4. The likelihood principle
- pt. 5. Recent advances in model selection
- pt. 6. Attempts to understand different aspects of 'randomness'
- pt. 7. Probabilistic and statistical paradoxes
- pt. 8. Statistics and inductive inference
- pt. 9. Various issues about causal inference
- pt. 10. Some philosophical issues concerning statistical learning theory
- pt. 11. Different approaches to simplicity related to inference and truth
- pt. 12. Special problems in statistics/computer science
- pt. 13. An application of statistics to climate change
- pt. 14. Historical approaches to probability/statistics.