Operational Subjective Statistical Methods by Frank Lad - 9780471143291

Operational Subjective Statistical MethodsA Mathematical, Philosophical, and Historical Introduction\nAuthor(s): Frank Lad\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wiley-Interscience\nISBN-13: 9780471143291, 978-0471143291\nSynopsis\nThe mathematical implications of personal beliefs and values inscience and commerce Amid a worldwide resurgence of interest in subjectivist statisticalmethod, this book offers a fresh look at the role of personaljudgments in statistical analysis. Frank Lad demonstrates howphilosophical attention to meaning provides a sensible assessmentof the prospects and procedures of empirical inferentiallearning. Operational Subjective Statistical Methods offers a systematicinvestigation of Bruno de Finetti's theory of probability and logicof uncertainty, which recognizes probability as the measure ofpersonal uncertainty at the heart of its mathematical [url] identifies de Finetti's \""fundamental theorem of coherentprovision\.