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Bayesians Versus Frequentists A Philosophical Debate on Statistical Reasoning /

This book analyzes the origins of statistical thinking as well as its related philosophical questions, such as causality, determinism or chance. Bayesian and frequentist approaches are subjected to a historical, cognitive and epistemological analysis, making it possible to not only compare the two c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vallverdú, Jordi (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:SpringerBriefs in Statistics,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Some Questions to Begin with
  • Ancient Statistics History in a Nutshell
  • The Bayesian Approach and its Evolution until the Beginning of 20th Century
  • A Conceptual Reply to Reverend Bayes: the Frequentist Approach
  • The Co-evolution, Battles and Fights of Both Paradigms
  • The Birth of Multicausality as the Death of Causality and Their Statistical Corollaries.- Natural vs. Artificial Minds and the Supercomputing Era
  • And the Winner is...
  • References.