Measuring and reasoning : (Record no. 519601)
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| control field | CR9781139161923 |
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| control field | UkCbUP |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781139161923 (ebook) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9781107024151 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA277 |
| Item number | .B66 2014 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 519.5/4 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bookstein, Fred L., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1947- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Measuring and reasoning : |
| Remainder of title | numerical inference in the sciences / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Fred L. Bookstein. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Measuring & Reasoning |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xxviii, 535 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 336 ## - Content Type (R) | |
| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
| Source (NR) | rdacontent |
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| Media type term (R) | computer |
| Media type code (R) | c |
| Source (NR) | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) | |
| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
| Source (NR) | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Statistical hypothesis testing. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781107024151 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139161923">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139161923</a> |
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