Scientific reasoning: the Bayesian approach

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Chicago: Open Court. Edited by Peter Urbach (1993)
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Scientific reasoning is—and ought to be—conducted in accordance with the axioms of probability. This Bayesian view—so called because of the central role it accords to a theorem first proved by Thomas Bayes in the late eighteenth ...

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Q175.H87 1993

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0812692349   9780812695786   081269578X   0812690842

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10.1093/bjps/48.1.126
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