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An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, this book asks what constitutes scientific evidence and whether scientific evidence can be quantified statistically. The chapters explore the relationships among hypotheses, models, data, and inference on which scientific progress rests in an attempt to develop a new quantitative framework for evidence. Informed by interdisciplinary discussions among scientists, philosophers, and statisticians, the chapters propose a new “evidential” approach, which may be more in keeping with the scientific method. The book argues that all ... More
Keywords: statistical foundations, scientific inference, scientific evidence, hypotheses, models, data, scientific progress, evidential approach, scientific method, statistical philosophy
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226789552 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226789583.001.0001 |
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