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Bias and causation [[electronic resource] ] : models and judgment for valid comparisons / / Herbert I. Weisberg
| Bias and causation [[electronic resource] ] : models and judgment for valid comparisons / / Herbert I. Weisberg |
| Autore | Weisberg Herbert I. <1944-> |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Disciplina |
519.5/35
519.535 |
| Collana | Wiley series in probability and statistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Discriminant analysis
Paired comparisons (Statistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-70774-4
9786612707742 0-470-63110-4 0-470-63109-0 |
| Classificazione | 70.03 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bias and Causation: Models and Judgment for Valid Comparisons; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1: What Is Bias?; CHAPTER 2: Causality and Comparative Studies; CHAPTER 3: Estimating Causal Effects; CHAPTER: 4 Varieties of Bias; CHAPTER 5: Selection Bias; CHAPTER 6: Confounding: An Enigma?; CHAPTER 7: Confounding: Essence, Correction, and Detection; CHAPTER 8: Intermediate Causal Factors; CHAPTER 9: Information Bias; CHAPTER 10: Sources of Bias; CHAPTER 11: Contending with Bias; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140843703321 |
Weisberg Herbert I. <1944->
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bias and causation : models and judgment for valid comparisons / / Herbert I. Weisberg
| Bias and causation : models and judgment for valid comparisons / / Herbert I. Weisberg |
| Autore | Weisberg Herbert I. <1944-> |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Disciplina | 519.5/35 |
| Collana | Wiley series in probability and statistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Discriminant analysis
Paired comparisons (Statistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-70774-4
9786612707742 0-470-63110-4 0-470-63109-0 |
| Classificazione | 70.03 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bias and Causation: Models and Judgment for Valid Comparisons; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1: What Is Bias?; CHAPTER 2: Causality and Comparative Studies; CHAPTER 3: Estimating Causal Effects; CHAPTER: 4 Varieties of Bias; CHAPTER 5: Selection Bias; CHAPTER 6: Confounding: An Enigma?; CHAPTER 7: Confounding: Essence, Correction, and Detection; CHAPTER 8: Intermediate Causal Factors; CHAPTER 9: Information Bias; CHAPTER 10: Sources of Bias; CHAPTER 11: Contending with Bias; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822673803321 |
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Weisberg Herbert I. <1944->
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Willful ignorance : the mismeasure of uncertainty / / Herbert I. Weisberg
| Willful ignorance : the mismeasure of uncertainty / / Herbert I. Weisberg |
| Autore | Weisberg Herbert I. <1944-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.4/22 |
| Soggetto topico |
Research - Statistical methods
Probabilities Research - Methodology |
| ISBN |
1-118-83953-6
1-118-59441-X |
| Classificazione | MAT029000MAT000000MED078000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
WILLFUL IGNORANCE; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 THE OPPOSITE OF CERTAINTY; TWO DEAD ENDS; ANALYTICAL ENGINES; WHAT IS PROBABILITY?; UNCERTAINTY; WILLFUL IGNORANCE; TOWARD A NEW SCIENCE; CHAPTER 2 A QUIET REVOLUTION; THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE; INVENTING PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; THE TAMING OF CHANCE; THE IGNORANCE FALLACY; THE DILEMMA OF SCIENCE; CHAPTER 3 A MATTER OF CHANCE; ORIGINS; Probability; Risky Business; Games, Odds, and Gambling; THE FAMOUS CORRESPONDENCE; Breaking the Symmetry Barrier; The Interrupted Game; WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN NEXT; AGAINST THE ODDS; A Fateful Journey
Reasoning in Games of ChanceCHAPTER 4 HARDLY TOUCHED UPON; THE MATHEMATICS OF CHANCE; Juan Caramuel; Joseph Sauveur; Jacob Bernoulli; Thomas Strode; Two Scottish Refugees: John Arbuthnot and David Gregory; Isaac Newton; EMPIRICAL FREQUENCIES; John Graunt; William Petty; Three Dutch Masters: Huygens, Hudde, and De Witt; Jacob Bernoulli; Edmond Halley; A QUANTUM OF CERTAINTY; Why not Huygens or Leibniz?; What about Probabilism?; Bernoulli's Meditations; Across the Channel; CHAPTER 5 A MATHEMATICIAN OF BASEL; PUBLICATION AT LAST; THE ART OF CONJECTURING; Part One: The Annotated Huygens Part Two: Permutations and CombinationsPart Three: Games of Chance; Part Four: Civil, Moral, and Economic Matters; A TRAGIC ENDING; CHAPTER 6 A DEFECT OF CHARACTER; MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY; An Itinerant Teacher; Turning Point; Expanding His Empire; Defending His Empire; A Mixed Legacy; A FRACTION OF CHANCES; De Mensura Sortis; De Moivre's Epiphany; CHAPTER 7 CLASSICAL PROBABILITY; REVOLUTIONARY REVERENDS; The Reverend Thomas Bayes; The Reverend Richard Price; The Famous Essay; Philosophical Significance; FROM CHANCES TO PROBABILITY; The French Newton; Laplace's Philosophy of Probability The Probability of CausesInsufficient Reason; A Coincidence?; CHAPTER 8 BABEL; THE GREAT UNRAVELING; PROBABILITY AS A RELATIVE FREQUENCY; The Meaning of Randomness; The Reference Class Problem; The Problem of the Single Case; PROBABILITY AS A LOGICAL RELATIONSHIP; Keynesian Probability; PROBABILITY AS A SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; Another Cambridge Prodigy; Subjectivity Italian Style; Subjectivity and Statistics; PROBABILITY AS A PROPENSITY; An Unorthodox Thinker; A World of Propensities; CHAPTER 9 PROBABILITY AND REALITY; THE RAZOR'S EDGE; WHAT FISHER KNEW; WHAT REFERENCE CLASS? The Monty Hall ProblemA POSTULATE OF IGNORANCE; Conditional Probabilities; Predicting Unique Events; Inside Information; The Two Envelope Problem; LAPLACE'S ERROR; CHAPTER 10 THE DECISION FACTORY; BEYOND MORAL CERTAINTY; Something Brewing; A Tale of Two Students; Contriving Ignorance; Statistical Significance; DECISIONS, DECISIONS; An Odd Couple; From Knowledge to Decisions; Rage Against the Machine; The Bayesian Revival; MACHINE-MADE KNOWLEDGE; CHAPTER 11 THE LOTTERY IN SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; Early Childhood Education; Aspirin for Prevention; FOOLED BY CAUSALITY; Heuristics and Biases Are We Really So Dumb? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132192803321 |
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Weisberg Herbert I. <1944->
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Willful ignorance : the mismeasure of uncertainty / / Herbert I. Weisberg
| Willful ignorance : the mismeasure of uncertainty / / Herbert I. Weisberg |
| Autore | Weisberg Herbert I. <1944-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.4/22 |
| Soggetto topico |
Research - Statistical methods
Probabilities Research - Methodology |
| ISBN |
1-118-83953-6
1-118-59441-X |
| Classificazione | MAT029000MAT000000MED078000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
WILLFUL IGNORANCE; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 THE OPPOSITE OF CERTAINTY; TWO DEAD ENDS; ANALYTICAL ENGINES; WHAT IS PROBABILITY?; UNCERTAINTY; WILLFUL IGNORANCE; TOWARD A NEW SCIENCE; CHAPTER 2 A QUIET REVOLUTION; THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE; INVENTING PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; THE TAMING OF CHANCE; THE IGNORANCE FALLACY; THE DILEMMA OF SCIENCE; CHAPTER 3 A MATTER OF CHANCE; ORIGINS; Probability; Risky Business; Games, Odds, and Gambling; THE FAMOUS CORRESPONDENCE; Breaking the Symmetry Barrier; The Interrupted Game; WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN NEXT; AGAINST THE ODDS; A Fateful Journey
Reasoning in Games of ChanceCHAPTER 4 HARDLY TOUCHED UPON; THE MATHEMATICS OF CHANCE; Juan Caramuel; Joseph Sauveur; Jacob Bernoulli; Thomas Strode; Two Scottish Refugees: John Arbuthnot and David Gregory; Isaac Newton; EMPIRICAL FREQUENCIES; John Graunt; William Petty; Three Dutch Masters: Huygens, Hudde, and De Witt; Jacob Bernoulli; Edmond Halley; A QUANTUM OF CERTAINTY; Why not Huygens or Leibniz?; What about Probabilism?; Bernoulli's Meditations; Across the Channel; CHAPTER 5 A MATHEMATICIAN OF BASEL; PUBLICATION AT LAST; THE ART OF CONJECTURING; Part One: The Annotated Huygens Part Two: Permutations and CombinationsPart Three: Games of Chance; Part Four: Civil, Moral, and Economic Matters; A TRAGIC ENDING; CHAPTER 6 A DEFECT OF CHARACTER; MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY; An Itinerant Teacher; Turning Point; Expanding His Empire; Defending His Empire; A Mixed Legacy; A FRACTION OF CHANCES; De Mensura Sortis; De Moivre's Epiphany; CHAPTER 7 CLASSICAL PROBABILITY; REVOLUTIONARY REVERENDS; The Reverend Thomas Bayes; The Reverend Richard Price; The Famous Essay; Philosophical Significance; FROM CHANCES TO PROBABILITY; The French Newton; Laplace's Philosophy of Probability The Probability of CausesInsufficient Reason; A Coincidence?; CHAPTER 8 BABEL; THE GREAT UNRAVELING; PROBABILITY AS A RELATIVE FREQUENCY; The Meaning of Randomness; The Reference Class Problem; The Problem of the Single Case; PROBABILITY AS A LOGICAL RELATIONSHIP; Keynesian Probability; PROBABILITY AS A SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; Another Cambridge Prodigy; Subjectivity Italian Style; Subjectivity and Statistics; PROBABILITY AS A PROPENSITY; An Unorthodox Thinker; A World of Propensities; CHAPTER 9 PROBABILITY AND REALITY; THE RAZOR'S EDGE; WHAT FISHER KNEW; WHAT REFERENCE CLASS? The Monty Hall ProblemA POSTULATE OF IGNORANCE; Conditional Probabilities; Predicting Unique Events; Inside Information; The Two Envelope Problem; LAPLACE'S ERROR; CHAPTER 10 THE DECISION FACTORY; BEYOND MORAL CERTAINTY; Something Brewing; A Tale of Two Students; Contriving Ignorance; Statistical Significance; DECISIONS, DECISIONS; An Odd Couple; From Knowledge to Decisions; Rage Against the Machine; The Bayesian Revival; MACHINE-MADE KNOWLEDGE; CHAPTER 11 THE LOTTERY IN SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; Early Childhood Education; Aspirin for Prevention; FOOLED BY CAUSALITY; Heuristics and Biases Are We Really So Dumb? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821375003321 |
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Weisberg Herbert I. <1944->
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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