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Likelihood

A.W.F. Edwards

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992

Expanded ed

  • : hard

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a newly expanded edition of Edwards' classic volume on scientific inference, in which he argues that the appropriate axiomatic basis for inductive inference is not that of probability, with its addition axiom, but that of likelihood, the concept introduced by Fisher as a measure of relative support among different hypotheses.

Table of Contents

  • Prologue on probability
  • the concept of likelihood
  • support
  • Bayes' theorem and inverse probability
  • maximum support - the method of maximum likelihood
  • the method of support for several paramters
  • expected information and the distribution of evaluates
  • application in anomalous cases
  • support tests
  • miscellaneous topics. Appendices: a problem in the doctrine of chances
  • the history of likelihood
  • fiducial distributions
  • the likelihood treatment of linear regression
  • R.A. Fisher's work on statistical inference.

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