Likelihood (Science Classics)

A. W. F. Edwards

ISBN 10: 0521318718 / ISBN 13: 9780521318716

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1984

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Type: Book N.B. Small plain label to inside front cover. Rubbing to corners of cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Likelihood (Science Classics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521318718
• ISBN 13: 9780521318716
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published
• Weight: 11 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • MATHEMATICS

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Synopsis

Dr Edwards' stimulating and provocative book advances the thesis that the appropriate axiomatic basis for inductive inference is not that of probability, with its addition axiom, but rather likelihood - the concept introduced by Fisher as a measure of relative support amongst different hypotheses. Starting from the simplest considerations and assuming no more than a modest acquaintance with probability theory, the author sets out to reconstruct nothing less than a consistent theory of statistical inference in science.

About the Author

A. W. F. Edwards is reader in biometry and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, England. He is the author of Foundations of Mathematical Genetics and Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle.