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The Matter of Chance

By D. H. Mellor

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0521615984, 9780521615983, 0521081947, 9780521081948
LCC
BC141 .M43 2004
Open Library ID
OL3433968M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3245934 bytes)
Pages
210\210
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Statistical techniques and theories have become widely applied in the physical, biological and social sciences. The enormous increase in their scope and complexity has led to much philosophical discussion of their significance, and of the meaning in non-mathematical terms of the methods and concepts they employ. This book deals not so much with statistical methods as with the central concept of chance, or statistical probability, which statistical theories apply to nature. Examples range from the chance of a tossed coin falling heads to that of a man dying or a radioactive atom decaying in a fixed period of time. Chances seem, however, to be peculiar properties, and to belong to peculiar entitles, to events rather than to things.

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