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The fitness of information : quantitative assessments of critical evidence / Chaomei Chen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Chaomei, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Wiley series in probability and statistics.
- Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Quantitative research.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Theories and practices to assess critical information in a complex adaptive system Organized for readers to follow along easily, The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Evidence provides a structured outline of the key challenges in assessing crucial information in a complex adaptive system. Illustrating a variety of computational and explanatory challenges, the book demonstrates principles and practical implications of exploring and assessing the fitness of information in an extensible framework of adaptive landscapes. The book's first three chapters introduce fun
- Contents:
- Attention and aesthetics
- Mental models
- Subjectivity of evidence
- Visualizing the growth of knowledge
- Fitness landscapes
- Structural variation
- Gap analytics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781118858080
- 1118858085
- 9781118594209
- 1118594207
- 9781118594100
- 111859410X
- OCLC:
- 873238150
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