TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pawitan,Yudi
AU  - Lee,Youngjo
TI  - Philosophies, puzzles and paradoxes: a statistician's search for truth 
SN  - 9781003341659
AV  - QA273.A35 P395 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Statistical decision
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Mathematics is focused on formal manipulation of abstract concepts, while statistics deals with real-world data and involves a higher degree of subjectivity due to the role of interpretation. Interpretation is shaped by context as well as the knowledge, biases, assumptions or preconceptions of the interpreter, leading to a variety of potential interpretations of concepts as well as results. This book thoroughly examines the distinct philosophical approaches to statistics--Bayesian, frequentist, and likelihood--arising from different interpretations of probability and uncertainty. These differences are highlighted through a variety of puzzles and paradoxes"--
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ER  -