Measuring and Reasoning: Numerical Inference in the Sciences - Hardcover

Bookstein, Fred L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107024153 ISBN 13: 9781107024151

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This exploration of empirical inference presents descriptions of the processes by which scientific measurements support explanations of our world.

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About the Author

Fred L. Bookstein is Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington, Seattle; Professor of Morphometrics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria; and an emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Michigan. Since 1977 he has produced some 300 books, chapters, articles, and videotapes on various aspects of these methods and their applications in studies of normal and abnormal craniofacial growth in humans and other mammals, studies in the neuroanatomy and behavior of schizophrenia and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and evolutionary studies of hominids and ammonoids. He is especially interested in how statistical diagrams can convey the valid numerical patterns that characterize complicated systems like continental drift or fetal alcohol brain damage to the broad modern public. The figures in this book include many of his current favorites along these lines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107024153
• ISBN 13: 9781107024151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 559