Good Thinking : The Foundations of Probability and its Applications / I. J. Good.

By:

Good, Irving John [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0816611416
0816611424

Subject(s):

Probabilities

DDC classification:

23 519.2 G.I.G.

Contents:

Rational decisions -- Twenty-seven principles of rationality -- 46656 varieties of bayesians -- The bayesian influence, or how to sweep subjectivism under the carpet -- Wich comes first, probability or statistics -- Kinds of probability -- Subjective probability as the measure of a non-measurable set -- Random thoughts about randomness -- Some history of the hierarchical bayasian methodology -- Dynamic probability, computer chess, and the measurement of knowledge -- The white shoe is a red herring -- The white shoe qua herring is pink -- A subjective evaluation of Bode's law and an "objective" test for approximate numerical rationality -- Some logic and history of hypnothesis testing -- Explicativity, corroboration, and the relative odds of hypotheses -- The appropriate mathematical tools, for describing and measuring uncertainty -- On the principle of total evidence -- A little learning can ben dangerous -- The probabilistic explication of information, evidence surprise, causality, explanation, and utility -- Is the size of our galaxy surprising? -- A causal calculus -- A simplification in the "causal calculus" -- Explicativity : a mathematical theory of explanation with statistical applications.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Media and mass communication Library F4	519.2 G.I.G.	Available		E0000348

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rational decisions --
Twenty-seven principles of rationality --
46656 varieties of bayesians --
The bayesian influence, or how to sweep subjectivism under the carpet -- Wich comes first, probability or statistics --
Kinds of probability --
Subjective probability as the measure of a non-measurable set --
Random thoughts about randomness -- Some history of the hierarchical bayasian methodology --
Dynamic probability, computer chess, and the measurement of knowledge --
The white shoe is a red herring --
The white shoe qua herring is pink -- A subjective evaluation of Bode's law and an "objective" test for approximate numerical rationality --
Some logic and history of hypnothesis testing --
Explicativity, corroboration, and the relative odds of hypotheses --
The appropriate mathematical tools, for describing and measuring uncertainty -- On the principle of total evidence --
A little learning can ben dangerous --
The probabilistic explication of information, evidence surprise, causality, explanation, and utility --
Is the size of our galaxy surprising? -- A causal calculus --
A simplification in the "causal calculus" --
Explicativity : a mathematical theory of explanation with statistical applications.

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