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Wie objektiv arbeiten Naturwissenschaftler? Wieviel von ihren eigenen Ansichten, Träumen und Wünschen lassen sie in ihre Interpretationen einfließen? Die Autoren dieses Bandes untersuchten im Hinblick auf diese Fragen die Biographien namhafter Forscher von Galilei über Darwin bis Einstein. Ihre Beobachtungen sind aufschlußreich und bezeichnend für den naturwissenschaftlichen Alltag. Schlußfolgernd erläutern die Autoren, wie man heutzutage Bayes-Ansätze ausnutzen könnte, um subjektive Entscheidungen aus der wissenschaftlichen Forschung möglichst auszuklammern.
List of contents
Preface.
Introduction.
Selecting the Scientists.
Some Well-Known Stories of Extreme Subjectivity.
Stories of Famous Scientists.
Subjectivity in Science in Modern Times: The Bayesian Approach.
Appendix: References by Field of Application for Bayesian Statistical Science.
Bibliography.
Subject Index.
Name Index.
About the author
S. JAMES PRESS is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California at Riverside. He is also the author of Bayesian Statistics: Principles, Models, and Applications (Wiley) and Applied Multivariate Analysis: Including Bayesian and Frequentist Methods of Inference.
JUDITH M. TANUR is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is also the editor of Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown and Questions About Questions: Inquiries into the Cognitive Bases of Surveys.
Summary
This book illustrates scientific methodology through descriptions of how actual scientists "create science. " The authors present a novel point of view, arguing that the popular perception of science as being strictly objective is untrue and that knowledge is often acquired through very personal means.
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"Press and Tanur argue that subjectivity has not only played a significant role in the advancement of science, but that science will advance more rapidly if the modern methods of Bayesian statistical analysis replace some of the more classical twentieth-century methods." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001)
"An insightful work." (Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2001)
"compilation of interesting and popular problems" (Short Book Reviews - Publication of the Int. Statistical Institute, December 2001)
"...this book is fascinating." (Short Book Reviews, Vol. 21, No. 3, December 2001)
"...highlight the role of subjectivity in science by describing the life and works of 17 scientists." (Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 973, 2001/23)
