Cognition and chance : the psychology of probabilistic reasoning /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nickerson, Raymond S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Subjects:
Probabilities.
Risk assessment.
Reasoning (Psychology)
Probability
Risk Assessment
Probabilités.
Évaluation du risque.
Raisonnement (Psychologie)
probability.
risk assessment.
MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.
Probabilities
Risk assessment
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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