The Matter of Chance - Rilegato

Mellor, D. H.

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ISBN 10: 0521081947 ISBN 13: 9780521081948

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1971

Riassunto

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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Descrizione del libro:

Statistical techniques and theories have become widely applied in the physical, biological and social sciences. 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.

L'autore:

D. H. Mellor is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0521081947
• ISBN 13: 9780521081948
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 204