TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taper,Mark L.
AU  - Lele,Subhash
TI  - The nature of scientific evidence: statistical, philosophical, and empirical considerations 
SN  - 9780226789583 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Q180.55.S7 N37 2004eb
U1  - 507/.2 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Méthodes statistiques
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Research & Methodology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Statistische analyse
KW  - gtt
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - Empirische methoden
KW  - Filosofische aspecten
KW  - Wetenschap
KW  - Statistik
KW  - swd
KW  - Evidenz
KW  - Wissenschaftstheorie
KW  - Naturwissenschaften
KW  - Ökologie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; Preface; Part 1: Scientific process; 1. A Brief Tour of Statistical Concepts; 2. Models of Scientific Inquiry and Statistical Practice: Implications for the Structure of Scientific Knowledge; 3. Experiments, Observations, and Other Kinds of Evidence; Part 2: Logics of evidence; 4. An Error-Statistical Philosophy of Evidence; 5. The Likelihood Paradigm for Statistical Evidence; 6. Why Likelihood?; 7. Evidence Functions and the Optimality of the Law of Likelihood; Part 3: Realities of nature; 8. Whole-Ecosystem Experiments: Replication and Arguing from Error
N2  - An exploration of the statistical foundations of scientific inference, The Nature of Scientific Evidence asks what constitutes scientific evidence and whether scientific evidence can be quantified statistically. Mark Taper, Subhash Lele, and an esteemed group of contributors explore the relationships among hypotheses, models, data, and inference on which scientific progress rests in an attempt to develop a new quantitative framework for evidence. Informed by interdisciplinary discussions among scientists, philosophers, and statisticians, they propose a new "evidential" approach, whic
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