Steven Osterlind

The Error of Truth

How History and Mathematics Came Together to Form Our Character and Shape Our Worldview

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Produktbeschreibung

The Error of Truth recounts the astonishing and unexpected tale of how quantitative thinking came to be, and considers how seeing the world through a quantitate lens has shaped our perception of the world we live in.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831600
• ISBN-10: 0198831609
• Artikelnr.: 54471308

Autorenporträt

Professor Steven J. Osterlind is Emeritus Professor (Measurement & Statistics), University of Missouri where he served for 32 years as a distinguished professor and dean. His research interests include statistical modeling with general linear model, hierarchical linear modeling, multilevel modeling; maximum likelihood, Bayesian estimation. He has over 200 academic publications to his name, including five books.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Remarkable Story
2: The Context
3: Beginning in Observation
4: The Patterns of Large Numbers
5: The Bell Curve Takes Shape
6: Evidence and Probability Data
7: At Least Squares
8: Coming to Everyman
9: Probably a Distribution
10: Average Man
11: Rare Events
12: Regression to the Mean
13: Interrelated and Correlated
14: Discrepancy to Variability
15: Related to Relativity
16: Psychometrics and Psychological Tests
17: The Arts and the Age of the Chip
18: The Sum of It All