Raymond S Nickerson

Cognition and Chance

The Psychology of Probabilistic Reasoning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an overview of the necessary information needed to make educational assumptions about the statistical or probable characteristics of a situation. The book can be used as a supplemental text in courses on probability, logic, statistics, judgement and decision making, history, and/or philosophy of science in departments of psychology, philosophy, mathematics, economics, and business.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 993g
• ISBN-13: 9780805848984
• ISBN-10: 0805848983
• Artikelnr.: 20958586

Autorenporträt

Nickerson, Raymond S.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword. Probability and Chance. Randomness. Coincidences.
Inverse Probability. Some Instructive Problems. Paradoxes and Dilemmas.
Statistics. Estimation and Prediction. Perception of Covariation. Choice
Under Uncertainty. People as Intuitive Probabilists. Concluding Comments.