Another title in the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, Jeffrey's Theory of Probability, first published in 1939, was the first to develop a fundamental theory of scientific inference based on the ideas of Bayesian statistics. His ideas were way ahead of their time and it is only in the past ten years that the subject of Bayes' factors has been significantly developed and extended. Until recently the two schools of statistics were distinctly different and set apart. (...) Recent work has changed all that and today's graduate students and researchers all require an understanding of Bayesian ideas. This book is their starting point. (shrink)

Published research findings are sometimes refuted by subsequent evidence, says Ioannidis, with ensuing confusion and disappointment.

The Shape of An Article 4 The Introduction 5 The Opening Statements 5 Examples of Examples 6 The Literature Review 6 Citations 6 Criticizing Previous Work 7 Ending the Introduction 7 The Method Section 7 The Results Section 8 Setting the Stage 8 Presenting the Findings 9 Figures and Tables 10 On Statistics 10 The Discussion Section 10 The Title and Abstract 11..