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The Matter of Chance

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For students and enthusiasts of statistical philosophy

Clarifies the complex concept of chance and probability

You will gain a deeper understanding of statistical theories

The Matter of Chance offers insights into the philosophy of probability and its applications across various sciences.

Statistical techniques and theories have become widely applied in the physical, biological and social sciences. The enormous increase in their scope and complexity has led to much philosophical discussion of their significance, and of the meaning in non-mathematical terms of the methods and concepts they employ. This book deals not so much with statistical methods as with the central concept of chance, or statistical probability, which statistical theories apply to nature. Examples range from the chance of a tossed coin falling heads to that of a man dying or a radioactive atom decaying in a fixed period of time. Chances seem, however, to be peculiar properties, and to belong to peculiar entitles, to events rather than to things.
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  • Title

    The Matter of Chance

  • Author

    D.H. Mellor

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    December 2004

  • Weight

    314g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521615983

  • ISBN-10

    0521615984

  • Eden Code

    4575287

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