Cognition and chance : the psychology of probabilistic reasoning /
An overview of the information needed to make educated assumptions about the statistical or probabilistic characteristics of a situation, this text shows how to make intelligent assessments of risk, enhance decision making under uncertainty, facilitate the understanding of statistical information an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1. Probability and Chance; 2. Randomness; 3. Coincidences; 4. Inverse Probability and the Reverend Tnomas Bayes; 5. Some Instructive Problems; 6. Some Probability Paradoxes and Dilemmas; 7. Statistics; 8. Estimation and Prediction; 9. Perception of Covariation and Contingency; 10. Choice under Uncertainty; 11. People as Intuitive Probabilists; 12. Concluding Comments; References; Author Index; Subject Index.