The matter of chance

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The matter of chance

D.H. Mellor

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-185) and index

"First paperback edition 2004" --T.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The limits of personalism
  • 2. Measuring partical belief
  • 3. Frequencies and trials
  • 4. Propensity
  • 5. Half lives and the force of mortality
  • 6. Imprecision and inexactness
  • 7. Connectivity and classical propensities
  • 8. Determinism and laws of nature
  • Apology
  • References
  • Index.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA70722466
  • ISBN
    • 0521615984
  • LCCN
    70152629
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 190 p
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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