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In defence of objective Bayesianism / Jon Williamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williamson, Jon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bayesian statistical decision theory.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Reasoning--Mathematical models.
- Reasoning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Objective Bayesianism is a methodological theory that is currently applied in statistics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, physics and other sciences. This book develops the formal and philosophical foundations of the theory, at a level accessible to a graduate student with some familiarity with mathematical notation.
- Contents:
- Objective Bayesianism outlined
- Objective Bayesian theory
- Criticisms of objective Bayesianism
- Evidence, language, and rationality
- Objective Bayesianism
- Desiderata for a theory of probability
- From Jakob Bernoulli to Edwin Jaynes
- A characterization of objective Bayesianism
- Motivation
- Beliefs and bets
- Probability
- Calibration
- Equivocation
- Radical subjectivism
- Updating
- Objective and subjective Bayesian updating.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612730702
- 1-282-73070-3
- 0-19-157613-1
- OCLC:
- 922970055
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