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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Statistics.
Springer eBooks. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32929936*spi |
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.
