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  title info:
    title: Measuring and reasoning
    sub title: numerical inference in the sciences
  name:
    name part: Bookstein, Fred L.
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxviii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In Reasoning and Measuring, 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 is the generation of new hypotheses to accord with findings that were surprising on previous hypotheses and consilience is 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.
  table of contents: I. The Basic Structure of a Numerical Inference -- Getting started -- Consilience as a rhetorical strategy -- Abduction and strong inference -- II. A Sampler of Strategies -- The undergraduate course -- III. Numerical Inference for General Systems -- Abduction and consilience in more complicated systems -- The singular-value decomposition: a family of pattern engines for organized systems -- Morphometrics, and other examples -- IV. What Is to Be Done? -- Retrospect and prospect.
  note: Fred L. Bookstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-518) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Statistical hypothesis testing
  subject:
    topic: MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General
  classification: QA277 .B66 2014
  classification: 519.5/4
  identifier: 9781107024151 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107024153 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013030370
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130730
    record change date: 20151206100629.0
    record identifier: in00003457881