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Topics in the Foundation of Statistics

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Bas C. Fraassen

    1. Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-3
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  2. Foundations of Science — Discussion

    1. A Philosophical Approach to Foundations of Science

      • Bas van Fraassen
      Pages 5-9

    2. A Pluralistic View of Foundations of Science

      • Patrick Suppes
      Pages 9-14

    3. The Foundation of Science

      • Arne Collen
      Pages 14-18

  3. The Foundation of Statistics

    1. Some Issues in the Foundation of Statistics

      • David Freedman
      Pages 19-39

    2. Rejoinder

      • David Freedman
      Pages 69-83

    3. Applications of Quantum Statistics in Psychological Studies of Decision Processes

      • Diedrik Aerts, Sven Aerts
      Pages 85-97

    4. Operationism, Probability and Quantum Mechanics

      • Maria Carla Galavotti
      Pages 99-118

    5. Computational Empiricism

      • Paul Humphreys
      Pages 119-130

  4. Varia

    1. Blame Not the Laws of Nature

      • Joseph Agassi
      Pages 131-154

    2. Biographical Notes

      • Bas C. van Fraassen
      Pages 155-157

    3. On Association for the Foundation of Science, Language and Cognition, AFOS; some history and some recent developments

      • Bas C. van Fraassen
      Pages 159-160

    4. Summary of AFOS Workshop, 1994

      • Joseph Agassi
      Pages 161-166
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About this book

Foundational research focuses on the theory, but theories are to be related also to other theories, experiments, facts in their domains, data, and to their uses in applications, whether of prediction, control, or explanation. A theory is to be identified through its class of models, but not so narrowly as to disallow these roles. The language of science is to be studied separately, with special reference to the relations listed above, and to the consequent need for resources other than for theoretical description. Peculiar to the foundational level are questions of completeness (specifically in the representation of measurement), and of interpretation (a topic beset with confusions of truth and evidence, and with inappropriate metalinguistic abstraction).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA

    Bas C. Fraassen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Topics in the Foundation of Statistics

  • Editors: Bas C. Fraassen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8816-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4405-6Published: 28 February 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4792-2Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8816-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 163

  • Topics: Statistics, general, Philosophy of Science, Quantum Physics

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