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The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations - Softcover

 
9780226789576: The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226789578 ISBN 13: 9780226789576
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, The Nature of Scientific Evidence asks what constitutes scientific evidence and whether scientific evidence can be quantified statistically. Mark Taper, Subhash Lele, and an esteemed group of contributors explore the relationships among hypotheses, models, data, and inference on which scientific progress rests in an attempt to develop a new quantitative framework for evidence. Informed by interdisciplinary discussions among scientists, philosophers, and statisticians, they propose a new "evidential" approach, which may be more in keeping with the scientific method. The Nature of Scientific Evidence persuasively argues that all scientists should care more about the fine points of statistical philosophy because therein lies the connection between theory and data.

Though the book uses ecology as an exemplary science, the interdisciplinary evaluation of the use of statistics in empirical research will be of interest to any reader engaged in the quantification and evaluation of data.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark L. Taper is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University. Subhash R. Lele is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta.

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"An important role of statistical analysis in science is for interpreting observed data as evidence--showing 'what the data say.' Although the standard statistical methods (hypothesis testing, estimation, confidence intervals) are routinely used for this purpose, the theory behind those methods contains no defined concept of evidence, and no answer to the basic question: 'When is it correct to say that a given body of data represents evidence supporting one statistical hypothesis over another?' or to its sequel: 'Can we give an objective measure of the strength of statistical evidence?'" From The Nature of Scientific Evidence

An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, The Nature of Scientific Evidence asks what constitutes scientific evidence and whether scientific evidence can be quantified statistically. Mark Taper, Subhash Lele, and an esteemed group of contributors explore the relationships among hypotheses, models, data, and inference on which scientific progress rests in an attempt to develop a new quantitative framework for evidence. Informed by interdisciplinary discussions among scientists, philosophers, and statisticians, they propose a new "evidential" approach, which may be more in keeping with the scientific method. The Nature of Scientific Evidence persuasively argues that all scientists should care more about the fine points of statistical philosophy because therein lies the connection between theory and data.

Though the book uses ecology as an exemplary science, the interdisciplinary evaluation of the use of statistics in empirical research will be of interest to any reader engaged in the quantification and evaluation of data.

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"An important role of statistical analysis in science is for interpreting observed data as evidence&;showing 'what the data say.' Although the standard statistical methods (hypothesis testing, estimation, confidence intervals) are routinely used for this purpose, the theory behind those methods contains no defined concept of evidence, and no answer to the basic question: 'When is it correct to say that a given body of data represents evidence supporting one statistical hypothesis over another?' or to its sequel: 'Can we give an objective measure of the strength of statistical evidence?'" From The Nature of Scientific Evidence

An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, The Nature of Scientific Evidence asks what constitutes scientific evidence and whether scientific evidence can be quantified statistically. Mark Taper, Subhash Lele, and an esteemed group of contributors explore the relationships among hypotheses, models, data, and inference on which scientific progress rests in an attempt to develop a new quantitative framework for evidence. Informed by interdisciplinary discussions among scientists, philosophers, and statisticians, they propose a new "evidential" approach, which may be more in keeping with the scientific method. The Nature of Scientific Evidence persuasively argues that all scientists should care more about the fine points of statistical philosophy because therein lies the connection between theory and data.

Though the book uses ecology as an exemplary science, the interdisciplinary evaluation of the use of statistics in empirical research will be of interest to any reader engaged in the quantification and evaluation of data.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226789578
ISBN 13 
9780226789576
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
585
Herausgeber
Taper Mark L., Lele Subhash R.
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