Statistical theory : the relationship of probability, credibility, and error : an examination of the contemporary crisis in statistical theory from a behaviourist viewpoint /
| Основен автор: | Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Norton,
[1950]
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Съдържание:
- pt. I. The founding fathers. The founding fathers and the natural history of gambling
- Randomness and the relevance of the rule
- Division of the stakes and the lottery of life and death
- The backward look and the balance sheet of Thomas Bayes
- The place of Laplace and the grand climacteric of the classical tradition
- pt. II. The calculus of error and the calculus of exploration. The normal law comes into the pictures
- The method of least squares and the concept of point estimation
- Error, variation and natural law
- Stochastic models for simple regression
- The impasse of factor analysis
- pt. III. The calculus of aggregates. Maxwell and the urn of nature
- Mendelism and the two meanings of probability
- pt. IV. The calculus of judgments. Statistical prudence and statistical inference
- Decision, indecision and sample economy
- Induction and design, stochastic and non-stochastic
- Recipe and rule in stochastic induction
- The confidence controversy and the fifth canon
- Epilogue.