Statistical Games and Human Affairs: This View from Within

by Roger J. Bowden

This book was first published in 1989. Inference and prediction in human affairs are characterised by a cognitive and reactive sample space, the elements of which are aware both of the statistician and of each other. It is therefore not surprising that methodologies borrowed from classical statistics and the physical sciences have yielded disappointingly few lasting empirical insights and have sometimes failed in predictive mode. This book puts the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521123410
• ISBN13: 9780521123419
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"