Scientific Method, Optimizing Applied Research Decisions

New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1962. Fine condition in a bright, shiny Very Good dust jacket (3 short closed tears). NOT a library discard. Clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Russell L. Ackoff was the protà gà and first doctoral student of the legendary C. West Churchman -- founding father in the fields of operations research, system theory, and management science. Included here are chapters on: The Nature of Science and Methodology; The Mean of Optimal Solutions to Problems; Formulating the Problem; Models; Defining; Measurement; Sampling; Estimation; Testing Hypotheses; Experimentation and Correlation; Deriving Solutions from Models; Experimental Optimization; Testing and Controlling the Model and Solution; Implementation and Organization of Research; The Ideals of Science and Society: An Epilogue. Two appendices. Bibliographies. Author Index. Subject Index. Bound in the original two-tone cloth (tan and green), stamped in green on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "This book creates a new field, the scientific study of the scientific process. The author formulates the problems of conducting research in such a way that recent developments of the Decision Theory can be applied to the research process itself." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 464pp. …