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Bookstein, Fred L., (1947-)

Measuring and reasoning :numerical inference in the sciences /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Measuring and reasoning :Fred L. Bookstein.
Reminder of title:	numerical inference in the sciences /
Author:	Bookstein, Fred L.,
Published:	New York :Cambridge University Press,2014.
Description:	xxviii, 535 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.
Subject:	Statistical hypothesis testing.
ISBN:	9781107024151 (hbk.) :

Measuring and reasoning :numerical inference in the sciences /
Bookstein, Fred L.,1947-

Measuring and reasoning :numerical inference in the sciences /Fred L. Bookstein. - New York :Cambridge University Press,2014. - xxviii, 535 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-518) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Basic Structure of a Numerical Inference: 1. Getting started; 2. Consilience as a rhetorical strategy; 3. Abduction and strong inference; Part II. A Sampler of Strategies: 4. The undergraduate course; Part III. Numerical Inference for General Systems: 5. Abduction and consilience in more complicated systems; 6. The singular value decomposition: a family of pattern engines for organized systems; 7. Morphometrics, and other examples; Part IV. What Is to Be Done?: 8. Retrospect and prospect.

"This exploration of empirical inference in science presents a formal description of the process by which scientific measurements support convincing explanations of the world around us"--

ISBN: 9781107024151 (hbk.) :NT$2369

LCCN: 2013030370Subjects--Topical Terms:

181865
Statistical hypothesis testing.

LC Class. No.: QA277 / .B66 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 519.5/4

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245 1 0 $a Measuring and reasoning : $b numerical inference in the sciences / $c Fred L. Bookstein.
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300 $a xxviii, 535 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 24 cm.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-518) and index.
505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Basic Structure of a Numerical Inference: 1. Getting started; 2. Consilience as a rhetorical strategy; 3. Abduction and strong inference; Part II. A Sampler of Strategies: 4. The undergraduate course; Part III. Numerical Inference for General Systems: 5. Abduction and consilience in more complicated systems; 6. The singular value decomposition: a family of pattern engines for organized systems; 7. Morphometrics, and other examples; Part IV. What Is to Be Done?: 8. Retrospect and prospect.
520 $a "This exploration of empirical inference in science presents a formal description of the process by which scientific measurements support convincing explanations of the world around us"-- $c Provided by publisher.
520 $a "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. They are illustrated through numerous classic and contemporary examples arising in disciplines ranging from atomic physics through geosciences to social psychology. The author goes on to teach core techniques of pattern analysis, including regression and correlation, normal distributions, and inference, and shows how these accord with abduction and consilience, first in the simple setting of one dependent variable and then in studies of image data for complex or interdependent systems. More than 200 figures and diagrams illuminate the text. The book can be read with profit by any student of the empirical nature or social sciences and by anyone concerned with how scientists persuade those of us who are not scientists why we should credit the most important claims about scientific facts or theories"-- $c Provided by publisher.
650 0 $a Statistical hypothesis testing. $3 181865