Bayesians Versus Frequentists A Philosophical Debate on Statistical Reasoning /
This book analyzes the origins of statistical thinking as well as its related philosophical questions, such as causality, determinism or chance. Bayesian and frequentist approaches are subjected to a historical, cognitive and epistemological analysis, making it possible to not only compare the two c...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Statistics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48638-2 |
Table of Contents:
- Some Questions to Begin with
- Ancient Statistics History in a Nutshell
- The Bayesian Approach and its Evolution until the Beginning of 20th Century
- A Conceptual Reply to Reverend Bayes: the Frequentist Approach
- The Co-evolution, Battles and Fights of Both Paradigms
- The Birth of Multicausality as the Death of Causality and Their Statistical Corollaries.- Natural vs. Artificial Minds and the Supercomputing Era
- And the Winner is...
- References.