Philosophy of statistics / edited by Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, Malcolm R. Forster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bandyopadhyay, Prasanta S.

Forster, Malcolm R.

Series:

Handbook of the philosophy of science ; v. 7.

Handbook of the philosophy of science, 0031-8019 ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, U.K. : Elsevier, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Statisticians and philosophers of science have many common interests but restricted communication with each other. This volume aims to remedy these shortcomings. It provides state-of-the-art research in the area of philosophy of statistics by encouraging numerous experts to communicate with one another without feeling "restricted? by their disciplines or thinking "piecemeal? in their treatment of issues. A second goal of this book is to present work in the field without bias toward any particular statistical paradigm. Broadly speaking, the essays in this Handbook are concerne

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13396-2

9786613133960

0-08-093096-4

OCLC:

741491871