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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820594703321

Autore

Chen Chaomei <1960->

Titolo

The fitness of information : quantitative assessments of critical evidence / / Chaomei Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-85808-5

1-118-59420-7

1-118-59410-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

Disciplina

001.4

001.42

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Quantitative research

Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Attention and aesthetics -- Mental models -- Subjectivity of evidence -- Visualizing the growth of knowledge -- Fitness landscapes -- Structural variation -- Gap analytics.

Sommario/riassunto

Theories and practices to assess critical information in a complex adaptive system  Organized for readers to follow along easily, The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Evidence provides a structured outline of the key challenges in assessing crucial information in a complex adaptive system. Illustrating a variety of computational and explanatory challenges, the book demonstrates principles and practical implications of exploring and assessing the fitness of information in an extensible framework of adaptive landscapes.   The book's first three chapters introduce fun