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Author : Schuyler W. Huck
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Statistical Illusions, Problems written by Schuyler W. Huck and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Schuyler W. Huck
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Statistical Illusions, Solutions written by Schuyler W. Huck and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Q. Howe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387254889
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Perceiving Geometry written by Catherine Q. Howe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last few centuries, natural philosophers, and more recently vision scientists, have recognized that a fundamental problem in biological vision is that the sources underlying visual stimuli are unknowable in any direct sense, because of the inherent ambiguity of the stimuli that impinge on sensory receptors. The light that reaches the eye from any scene conflates the contributions of reflectance, illumination, transmittance, and subsidiary factors that affect these primary physical parameters. Spatial properties such as the size, distance and orientation of physical objects are also conflated in light stimuli. As a result, the provenance of light reaching the eye at any moment is uncertain. This quandary is referred to as the inverse optics problem. This book considers the evidence that the human visual system solves this problem by incorporating past human experience of what retinal images have typically corresponded to in the real world.
Author : Roger E. Kirk
Publisher : Thomson Brooks/Cole
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Statistical Issues written by Roger E. Kirk and published by Thomson Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1972 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For introductory- and intermediate-level statistics courses in the behavioral sciences. Most of the articles require only a knowledge of college algebra.
Author : Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471159629
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Inevitable Illusions written by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-11-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating and insightful. . . . I cannot recall a book that has made me think more about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C. Lewontin Harvard University Everyone knows that optical illusions trick us because of the way we see. Now scientists have discovered that cognitive illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded in the human mind, can actually distort the way we think. In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini takes us on a provocative, challenging, and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the games our minds play. He opens the doors onto the newly charted realm of the cognitive unconscious to reveal the full range of illusions, showing how they inhibit our ability to reason--no matter what our educational background or IQ. Inevitable Illusions is stimulating, eye-opening food for thought.
Author : Eric D. Feigelson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146139290X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy written by Eric D. Feigelson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern astronomy has been characterized by an enormous growth in data acquisition - from new technologies in telescopes, detectors, and computation. One can now compile catalogs of tens or hundreds of millions of stars or galaxies and databases from satellite-based observations are reaching terabit proportions. This wealth of data gives rise to statistical challenges not previously encountered in astronomy. This book is the result of a workshop held at Pennsylvania State University in August 1991 that brought together leading astronomers and statisticians to consider statistical challenges encountered in modern astronomical research. The chapters have all been thoroughly revised in the light of the discussions at the conference, and some of the lively discussion is recorded here as well.
Author : Leighton Vaughan Williams
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000458946
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Probability, Choice, and Reason written by Leighton Vaughan Williams and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of our thinking is flawed because it is based on faulty intuition. By using the framework and tools of probability and statistics, we can overcome this to provide solutions to many real-world problems and paradoxes. We show how to do this, and find answers that are frequently very contrary to what we might expect. Along the way, we venture into diverse realms and thought experiments which challenge the way that we see the world. Features: An insightful and engaging discussion of some of the key ideas of probabilistic and statistical thinking Many classic and novel problems, paradoxes, and puzzles An exploration of some of the big questions involving the use of choice and reason in an uncertain world The application of probability, statistics, and Bayesian methods to a wide range of subjects, including economics, finance, law, and medicine Exercises, references, and links for those wishing to cross-reference or to probe further Solutions to exercises at the end of the book This book should serve as an invaluable and fascinating resource for university, college, and high school students who wish to extend their reading, as well as for teachers and lecturers who want to liven up their courses while retaining academic rigour. It will also appeal to anyone who wishes to develop skills with numbers or has an interest in the many statistical and other paradoxes that permeate our lives. Indeed, anyone studying the sciences, social sciences, or humanities on a formal or informal basis will enjoy and benefit from this book.
Author : Danut Vasile Jemna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Statistical Data Quality Illusion written by Danut Vasile Jemna and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics data are the result of a complex scientific research process. Based on rigorous procedures, statistical research offers a bigger quantity of data from various domains, to specialists and wide public. This considerable quantity of statistics data illustrate on the one hand an extension of a quantitative research field and, on the other hand, the necessity of a clear data quality requirements establishing. The problem of the statistics data quality is increasingly in the attention of the specialists from social-economic sciences. Such an accent it is met in the masterpiece of the statistician O. Morgenstern, German by birth. In this paper we care about some considerations regarding the modality in which the statistics is handling with the new challenges of producing data and information, having as starting point the German author ideas towards the precision of the statistic data in economy. The analysis aim the problem of the statistic data quality in the wide and complex field of the nowadays research, as well as the problems related to the possibilities of the quality conditions validation of the statistic research results.
Author : Timothy Irwin
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475571321
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Accounting Devices and Fiscal Illusions written by Timothy Irwin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proposed SDN surveys the various accounting stratagems which governments have used to meet fiscal targets—thereby sidestepping the need for true adjustment—and suggests remedial actions to limit this type of fiscal non-transparency. Types of creative accounting covered includes, for instance, currency swaps to hide a debt build-up (as in Greece in 2001–07), sale and leaseback of government property (for example, in the United States), assumption of long-term pension obligations in exchange for short-term revenue (Argentina, Hungary, and other Eastern European countries), use of public-private partnerships to defer the recognition of investment spending (for instance, Portugal), and reliance on non-cash compensation (such as pension rights) to reduce measured wage bills (in the United States, United Kingdom, etc.) As is evident from the examples given, these fiscal tricks have recently come under increased international scrutiny, highlighting the importance of good fiscal reporting, accounting, and transparency in general, for avoiding unpleasant surprises, ensuring government accountability, and containing fiscal vulnerabilities.
Author : Jerzy Neyman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability written by Jerzy Neyman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1949 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gila Hanna
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832529992
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Psychology and Mathematics Education written by Gila Hanna and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Mathematics is constructed rigorously through proofs, based on truths, which are either axioms or previously proven theorems. Thus, it is par excellence a model of rational inquiry. Links between Cognitive Psychology and Mathematics Education have been particularly strong during the last decades. Indeed, the Enlightenment view of the rational human mind that reasons, makes decisions and solves problems based on logic and probabilities, was shaken during the second half of the twentieth century. Cognitive psychologists discovered that humans' thoughts and actions often deviate from rules imposed by strict normative theories of inference. Yet, these deviations should not be called "errors": as Cognitive Psychologists have demonstrated, these deviations may be either valid heuristics that succeed in the environments in which humans have evolved, or biases that are caused by a lack of adaptation to abstract information formats. Humans, as the cognitive psychologist and economist Herbert Simon claimed, do not usually optimize, but rather satisfice, even when solving problem. This Research Topic aims at demonstrating that these insights have had a decisive impact on Mathematics Education. We want to stress that we are concerned with the view of bounded rationality that is different from the one espoused by the heuristics-and-biases program. In Simon’s bounded rationality and its direct descendant ecological rationality, rationality is understood in terms of cognitive success in the world (correspondence) rather than in terms of conformity to content-free norms of coherence (e.g., transitivity).
Author : James H. Korn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438409532
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Illusions of Reality written by James H. Korn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some psychologists think it is almost always wrong to deceive research subjects, while others think the use of deception is essential if significant human problems are to receive scientific study. Illusions of Reality shows how deception is used in psychological research to create illusions of reality—situations that involve research subjects without revealing the true purpose of the experiment. The book examines the origins and development of this practice that have lead to some of the most dramatic and controversial studies in the history of psychology. Social psychology may be the only area of research where the research methods sometimes are as interesting as the results. The most impressive experiments in this field produce their impact by creating situations that lead research subjects to believe that they are taking part in something other than the true experiment, or situations where subjects are not even aware that an experiment is being conducted. These illusions of reality are created by using various forms of deception, such as providing false information to people about how they perform on tests or by using actors who play roles. The research described in Illusions of Reality includes significant and controversial experiments in the history of psychology that sometimes took on the characteristics of dramatic stage productions. The ethical issues raised by this research are discussed, and the practice of using deception in research is placed in the context of American cultural values.
Author : Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317362187
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Cognition as Intuitive Statistics written by Gerd Gigerenzer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology. Where theories come from, as opposed to how they become established, was almost a no-man’s land in the history and philosophy of science at the time. The authors argue that in the science of mind, theories are particularly likely to come from tools, and they are especially concerned with the emergence of the metaphor of the mind as an intuitive statistician. In the first chapter, the authors discuss the rise of the inference revolution, which institutionalized those statistical tools that later became theories of cognitive processes. In each of the four following chapters they treat one major topic of cognitive psychology and show to what degree statistical concepts transformed their understanding of those topics.
Author : Marjo Hoefnagels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493426
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Research Design written by Marjo Hoefnagels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Design: The Logic of Social Inquiry is a collection of critical writings on different aspects of social research. They have been carefully selected for the variety of approaches they display in relation to three broad styles of research: experimental, survey, and ethnographic. All are classic contributions to the development of methodology and excellent expositions of particular procedures.The book is organized in sections that detail the methods of a typical experimental research program design, data collection, and data analysis. These five sections include The Language of Social Research, Research Design, Data Collection, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Report. Each is preceded by an introduction stressing the unique strengths of the different viewpoints represented and reconciling them in one coherent approach to research.The volume includes displays of philosophical underpinnings of different methodological styles and important issues in research design. Data collection methods, particularly the problem of systematic bias in the data collected, and ways in which researchers may attempt to reduce it, are discussed. There is also a discussion on measurement in which the central issues of reliability, validity, and scale construction are detailed. This kind of synthesis, between such diverse schools of research as the experimentalists and the ethnographers, is of particular concern to social researchers. The book will be of great value to planners and researchers in local government and education departments and to all others engaged in social science or educational research.
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book War on Hunger written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Darity, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940112938X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets written by William A. Darity, Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Darity, Jr. In 1984 the Kluwer series in Modern Economic Thought, under the editorial direction of Warren Samuels, brought out a book under my editorship entitled Labor Economics: Modern Views. It consisted of a series of essays and commentaries that sought, in a critical fashion, to assess the state of the art in the field of labor economics with respect to several themes. These included methodology versus practice, the analysis of discrimination by gender and race, the phenomenon of persistent racial differences in un employment exposure, occupational safety and health regulation, dual versus segmented labor markets, and the remnants of the Phillips curve trade-off between unemployment and inflation. Nearly a decade later I was approached by Warren Samuels and Kluwer about editing a new book that would again address where things stand in labor economics. In proceeding with the development of this current book I was a struck by the extent to which the research thrust that was apparent in the early 1980s remains intact as we move toward the 21st century. The vast majority of scholarship in the labor subfield is dominated by the methodological orientation of applied neoclassical microeconomics, supplemented by incursions from the themes that occupy the so-called "pure theorists," particularly of the game theoretic variety.
Author : Schuyler W. Huck
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Statistical illusions written by Schuyler W. Huck and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
