Uncertainty (e-book) (used book) | William Briggs | bookbook.eu

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1. Truth, Argument, Realism

1.1. Truth

1.3. Epistemology

1.5. Science & Scientism

1.7. Belief & Knowlege

2.1. Language

2.3. Syllogistic Logic

2.5. Informality

2.6. Fallacy

3. Induction and Intellection

3.1. Metaphysics

3.2. Types of Induction

3.3. Grue

4. What Probability Is

4.1. Probability Is Conditional

4.2. Relevance

4.3. The Proportional Syllogism

4.4. Details

4.5. Assigning Probability

4.6. Weight of Probability

4.7. Probability Usually Is Not a Number

4.8. Probability Can Be a Number

5. What Probability Is Not

5.2. Probability & Essence

5.4. Probability Is Not Only Relative Frequency

6. Chance and Randomness

6.2. Not a Cause

6.4. Nothing Is Distributed

6.6. Simulations

6.7. Truly Random & Information Theory

7. Causality

7.1. What Is Cause Like?

7.2. Causal Models

7.3. Paths

7.4. Once a Cause, Always a Cause

7.5. Falsifiability

7.6. Explanation

7.7. Under-Determination

8. Probability Models

8.1. Model Form

8.2. Relevance & Importance

8.3. Independence versus Irrelevance

8.4. Bayes

8.5. The Problem and Origin of Parameters

8.6. Exchangeability and Parameters

8.7. Mystery of Parameters

9. Statistical and Physical Models

9.1. The Idea

9.3. Second-Best Models

9.5. Measurement

9.7. Die, P-Value, Die, Die, Die

9.9. Model Goodness

10. Modeling Goals, Strategies, and Mistakes

10.1. Regression

10.2. Risk

10.3. Epidemiologist Fallacy

10.4. Quantifying the Unquantifiable

10.5. Time Series

10.6. The Future