| The Matter of Chance Contributor(s): Mellor, D. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521615984 ISBN-13: 9780521615983 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - Bayesian Analysis |
| Dewey: 123.3 |
| LCCN: 2005273981 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 208 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Mellor, D. H.: - D. H. Mellor is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
