Author : E. T. Jaynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-10
ISBN : 9780521592710
Pages : 764 pages
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Download or read book Probability Theory written by E. T. Jaynes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: index
Author : Andreĭ Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
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Release Date : 1946
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Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung written by Andreĭ Nikolaevich Kolmogorov and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. R. GUPTA
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Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 9788126916498
Pages : pages
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Download or read book PROBABILITY THEORY THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE. written by K. R. GUPTA and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Feynman Vorlesungen über Physik written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent F. Hendricks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2001-06-30
ISBN : 9780792369523
Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Probability Theory written by Vincent F. Hendricks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers presented at the conference on Probability Theory - Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science, University of Roskilde, Denmark, September 16-18, 1998. Since the measure theoretical definition of probability was proposed by Kolmogorov, probability theory has developed into a mature mathematical theory. It is today a fruitful field of mathematics that has important applications in philosophy, science, engineering, and many other areas. The measure theoretical definition of probability and its axioms, however, are not without their problems; some of them even puzzled Kolmogorov. This book sheds light on some recent discussions of the problems in probability theory and their history, analysing their philosophical and mathematical significance, and the role pf mathematical probability theory in other sciences.
Author : T. Hailperin
Publisher : Elsevier
Release Date : 1986-10-01
ISBN : 9780080880051
Pages : 427 pages
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Download or read book Boole's Logic and Probability written by T. Hailperin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1986-10-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the first edition in 1976, there has been a notable increase of interest in the development of logic. This is evidenced by the several conferences on the history of logic, by a journal devoted to the subject, and by an accumulation of new results. This increased activity and the new results - the chief one being that Boole's work in probability is best viewed as a probability logic - were influential circumstances conducive to a new edition. Chapter 1, presenting Boole's ideas on a mathematical treatment of logic, from their emergence in his early 1847 work on through to his immediate successors, has been considerably enlarged. Chapter 2 includes additional discussion of the ``uninterpretable'' notion, both semantically and syntactically. Chapter 3 now includes a revival of Boole's abandoned propositional logic and, also, a discussion of his hitherto unnoticed brush with ancient formal logic. Chapter 5 has an improved explanation of why Boole's probability method works. Chapter 6, Applications and Probability Logic, is a new addition. Changes from the first edition have brought about a three-fold increase in the bibliography.
Author : William Eckhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-09-27
ISBN : 9400751397
Pages : 85 pages
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Download or read book Paradoxes in Probability Theory written by William Eckhardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes provide a vehicle for exposing misinterpretations and misapplications of accepted principles. This book discusses seven paradoxes surrounding probability theory. Some remain the focus of controversy; others have allegedly been solved, however the accepted solutions are demonstrably incorrect. Each paradox is shown to rest on one or more fallacies. Instead of the esoteric, idiosyncratic, and untested methods that have been brought to bear on these problems, the book invokes uncontroversial probability principles, acceptable both to frequentists and subjectivists. The philosophical disputation inspired by these paradoxes is shown to be misguided and unnecessary; for instance, startling claims concerning human destiny and the nature of reality are directly related to fallacious reasoning in a betting paradox, and a problem analyzed in philosophy journals is resolved by means of a computer program.
Author : Wolfgang von der Linden
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 1999-07-31
ISBN : 9780792357667
Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Garching, Germany 1998 written by Wolfgang von der Linden and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978 Edwin T. Jaynes and Myron Tribus initiated a series of workshops to exchange ideas and recent developments in technical aspects and applications of Bayesian probability theory. The first workshop was held at the University of Wyoming in 1981 organized by C.R. Smith and W.T. Grandy. Due to its success, the workshop was held annually during the last 18 years. Over the years, the emphasis of the workshop shifted gradually from fundamental concepts of Bayesian probability theory to increasingly realistic and challenging applications. The 18th international workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods was held in Garching / Munich (Germany) (27-31. July 1998). Opening lectures by G. Larry Bretthorst and by Myron Tribus were dedicated to one of th the pioneers of Bayesian probability theory who died on the 30 of April 1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes. Jaynes revealed and advocated the correct meaning of 'probability' as the state of knowledge rather than a physical property. This inter pretation allowed him to unravel longstanding mysteries and paradoxes. Bayesian probability theory, "the logic of science" - as E.T. Jaynes called it - provides the framework to make the best possible scientific inference given all available exper imental and theoretical information. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Tribus and Bretthorst in commemorating the outstanding contributions of E.T. Jaynes to the development of probability theory.
Author : Albert Einstein
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Release Date : 1969
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Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Briefwechsel 1916-1955 written by Albert Einstein and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W.L. Harper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN : 9401018537
Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science written by W.L. Harper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1973 we organized an international research colloquium on foundations of probability, statistics, and statistical theories of science at the University of Western Ontario. During the past four decades there have been striking formal advances in our understanding of logic, semantics and algebraic structure in probabilistic and statistical theories. These advances, which include the development of the relations between semantics and metamathematics, between logics and algebras and the algebraic-geometrical foundations of statistical theories (especially in the sciences), have led to striking new insights into the formal and conceptual structure of probability and statistical theory and their scientific applications in the form of scientific theory. The foundations of statistics are in a state of profound conflict. Fisher's objections to some aspects of Neyman-Pearson statistics have long been well known. More recently the emergence of Baysian statistics as a radical alternative to standard views has made the conflict especially acute. In recent years the response of many practising statisticians to the conflict has been an eclectic approach to statistical inference. Many good statisticians have developed a kind of wisdom which enables them to know which problems are most appropriately handled by each of the methods available. The search for principles which would explain why each of the methods works where it does and fails where it does offers a fruitful approach to the controversy over foundations.
Author : W.L. Harper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1976
ISBN : 9789027706171
Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book Foundations and Philosophy of Epistemic Applications of Probability Theory written by W.L. Harper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1976 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of an International Research Colloquium held at the University of Western Ontario, 10-13 May 1973.
Author : Edwin T. Jaynes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1989-04-30
ISBN : 9780792302131
Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book E.T. Jaynes written by Edwin T. Jaynes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-04-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first six chapters of this volume present the author's 'predictive' or information theoretic' approach to statistical mechanics, in which the basic probability distributions over microstates are obtained as distributions of maximum entropy (Le. , as distributions that are most non-committal with regard to missing information among all those satisfying the macroscopically given constraints). There is then no need to make additional assumptions of ergodicity or metric transitivity; the theory proceeds entirely by inference from macroscopic measurements and the underlying dynamical assumptions. Moreover, the method of maximizing the entropy is completely general and applies, in particular, to irreversible processes as well as to reversible ones. The next three chapters provide a broader framework - at once Bayesian and objective - for maximum entropy inference. The basic principles of inference, including the usual axioms of probability, are seen to rest on nothing more than requirements of consistency, above all, the requirement that in two problems where we have the same information we must assign the same probabilities. Thus, statistical mechanics is viewed as a branch of a general theory of inference, and the latter as an extension of the ordinary logic of consistency. Those who are familiar with the literature of statistics and statistical mechanics will recognize in both of these steps a genuine 'scientific revolution' - a complete reversal of earlier conceptions - and one of no small significance.
Author : Valeriĭ Borisovich Nevzorov
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Release Date : 2021
ISBN : 9781536191738
Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Probability Theory written by Valeriĭ Borisovich Nevzorov and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for people who are interested to know the basics of probability theory. The basic knowledge of high school math will be enough to know the probability theory covered in the book. It covers basic theories of probability, statistical distributions, order statistics and record values, The use of characterization methods are described to identify various probability distributions. The book will be useful for undergraduate, graduate students and applied statisticians.
Author : William Leonard Harper
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Release Date : 1976
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Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science: Foundations and philosophy of statistical theories in the physical sciences written by William Leonard Harper and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.K. Konopka
Publisher : CRC Press
Release Date : 2006-11-20
ISBN : 1420015125
Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Systems Biology written by A.K. Konopka and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With extraordinary clarity,the Systems Biology: Principles, Methods, and Concepts focuses on the technical practical aspects of modeling complex or organic general systems. It also provides in-depth coverage of modeling biochemical, thermodynamic, engineering, and ecological systems. Among other methods and concepts based in logic, computer science, and dynamical systems, it explores pragmatic techniques of General Systems Theory. This text presents biology as an autonomous science from the perspective of fundamental modeling techniques. A complete resource for anyone interested in biology as an exact science, it includes a comprehensive survey, review, and critique of concepts and methods in Systems Biology.
Author : Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN : 0415939275
Pages : 1012 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science written by Sahotra Sarkar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).
Author : Wolfgang Pietsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-12-10
ISBN : 3030864421
Pages : 295 pages
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Download or read book On the Epistemology of Data Science written by Wolfgang Pietsch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses controversies concerning the epistemological foundations of data science: Is it a genuine science? Or is data science merely some inferior practice that can at best contribute to the scientific enterprise, but cannot stand on its own? The author proposes a coherent conceptual framework with which these questions can be rigorously addressed. Readers will discover a defense of inductivism and consideration of the arguments against it: an epistemology of data science more or less by definition has to be inductivist, given that data science starts with the data. As an alternative to enumerative approaches, the author endorses Federica Russo’s recent call for a variational rationale in inductive methodology. Chapters then address some of the key concepts of an inductivist methodology including causation, probability and analogy, before outlining an inductivist framework. The inductivist framework is shown to be adequate and useful for an analysis of the epistemological foundations of data science. The author points out that many aspects of the variational rationale are present in algorithms commonly used in data science. Introductions to algorithms and brief case studies of successful data science such as machine translation are included. Data science is located with reference to several crucial distinctions regarding different kinds of scientific practices, including between exploratory and theory-driven experimentation, and between phenomenological and theoretical science. Computer scientists, philosophers and data scientists of various disciplines will find this philosophical perspective and conceptual framework of great interest, especially as a starting point for further in-depth analysis of algorithms used in data science.
