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Operational subjective statistical methods: a mathematical, philosophical, and historical introduction

By Frank Lad

Book information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
1996
ISBN
0471143294, 9780471143291
LCC
QA276 .L26 1996
Open Library ID
OL969624M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7754226 bytes)
Series
Wiley series in probability and statistics. Applied probability and statistics
Pages
256\256
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Математика;Теория вероятностей и математическая ст

Description

The first book to present Bruno de Finetti's theory of probability and logic of uncertainty in a systematic format. The author identifies de Finetti's "fundamental theorem of coherent prevision" as the unifying structure of probabilistic logic, highlighting the judgment of exchangeability rather than causal independence as the key probabilistic component of statistical inference. Throughout the text, readers are invited to address the subjective personalistic meaning of probability as motivating the mathematical construction. Philosophical attention to meaning is shown to support a difference approach to statistical practice that is widely prevalent today. Includes numerous examples, problems, and illustrations to facilitate understanding.

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