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Measuring and Reasoning: Numerical Inference in the Sciences
Fred L. Bookstein
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hardcover. This exploration of empirical inference presents descriptions of the processes by which scientific measurements support explanations of our world. Num Pages: 559 pages, 180 b/w illus. BIC Classification: GPS; PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 890.
In Measuring and Reasoning, Fred L. Bookstein examines the way ordinary arithmetic and numerical patterns are translated into scientific understanding, showing how the process relies on two carefully managed forms of argument: • Abduction: the generation of new hypotheses to accord with findings that were surprising on previous hypotheses, and • Consilience: the confirmation of numerical pattern claims by analogous findings at other levels of measurement. These profound principles include an understanding of the role of arithmetic and, more importantly, of how numerical patterns found in one study can relate to numbers found in others. More than 200 figures and ... Read more
In Measuring and Reasoning, Fred L. Bookstein examines the way ordinary arithmetic and numerical patterns are translated into scientific understanding, showing how the process relies on two carefully managed forms of argument: • Abduction: the generation of new hypotheses to accord with findings that were surprising on previous hypotheses, and • Consilience: the confirmation of numerical pattern claims by analogous findings at other levels of measurement. These profound principles include an understanding of the role of arithmetic and, more importantly, of how numerical patterns found in one study can relate to numbers found in others. More than 200 figures and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
889 g
Number of Pages
559
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107024151
SKU
V9781107024151
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About Fred L. Bookstein
Fred L. Bookstein is Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle; Professor of Morphometrics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria; and an emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Michigan. Since 1977 he has produced some 300 books, chapters, articles, and videotapes on various aspects of these methods and their applications in studies of normal ... Read more
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