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Introduction to probability and inductive logic

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001Description: xvii,302 p. 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780521775014
Other title:
  • Probability and inductive logic
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160 22 HA-I
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Contents:
Logic -- 1. Logic -- 2. What is inductive logic? -- How to calculate probabilities -- 3. The gambler's fallacy -- 4. Elementary probability ideas -- 5. Conditional probability -- 6. The basic rules of probability -- 7. Bayes' rule -- How to combine probabilities and utilities -- 8. Expected value -- 9. Maximizing expected value -- 10. Decision under uncertainty -- Kinds of probability -- 11. What do you mean? -- 12. Theories about probability -- Probability as a measure of belief -- 13. Personal probabilities -- 14. Coherence -- 15. Learning from experience -- Probability as frequency -- 16. Stability -- 17. Normal approximations -- 18. Significance and power -- 19. Confidence and inductive behavior -- Probability applied to philosophy -- 20. The philosophical problem of induction -- 21. Learning from experience as an evasion of the problem of induction -- 22. Inductive behavior as an evasion of the problem of induction.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.

Logic -- 1. Logic -- 2. What is inductive logic? -- How to calculate probabilities -- 3. The gambler's fallacy -- 4. Elementary probability ideas -- 5. Conditional probability -- 6. The basic rules of probability -- 7. Bayes' rule -- How to combine probabilities and utilities -- 8. Expected value -- 9. Maximizing expected value -- 10. Decision under uncertainty -- Kinds of probability -- 11. What do you mean? -- 12. Theories about probability -- Probability as a measure of belief -- 13. Personal probabilities -- 14. Coherence -- 15. Learning from experience -- Probability as frequency -- 16. Stability -- 17. Normal approximations -- 18. Significance and power -- 19. Confidence and inductive behavior -- Probability applied to philosophy -- 20. The philosophical problem of induction -- 21. Learning from experience as an evasion of the problem of induction -- 22. Inductive behavior as an evasion of the problem of induction.

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