probability and certainty — Scriptorium Liberum

Measurement Uncertainty and Probability

📁 Measurement Uncertainty and Probability

✍ Willink R. 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

A measurement result is incomplete without a statement of its 'uncertainty' or 'margin of error'. But what does this statement actually tell us? By examining the practical meaning of probability, this book discusses what is meant by a '95 percent interval of measurement uncertainty', and how such an

Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth

📁 Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth Century England

✍ Barbara J. Shapiro 📂 Library 📅 1985 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

The Description for this book, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relationships Between National Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literature, will be forthcoming.

Between Probability and Certainty: What

📁 Between Probability and Certainty: What Justifies Belief

✍ Martin Smith 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Martin Smith explores a question central to philosophy—namely, what does it take for a belief to be justified or rational? According to a widespread view, whether one has justification for believing a proposition is determined by how probable that proposition is, given one's evidence. In th

Between Certainty and Uncertainty: Stati

📁 Between Certainty and Uncertainty: Statistics and Probability in Five Units with Notes on Historical Origins and Illustrative Numerical Examples

✍ Ludomir M. Laudański (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

„Between Certainty & Uncertainty” is a one-of–a-kind short course on statistics for students, engineers and researchers. It is a fascinating introduction to statistics and probability with notes on historical origins and 80 illustrative numerical examples organized in the five units:

The Probable And The Provable

📁 The Probable And The Provable

✍ L. Jonathan Cohen 📂 Library 📅 1977 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian concept of probability in terms of which one can ana

The Certainty of Uncertainty

📁 The Certainty of Uncertainty

✍ Poerksen, Bernhard;Koeck, Alison;Koeck, Wolfram 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Andrews UK 🌐 English

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.  This book