Likelihood
2nd Edition
Published on 26. November 1992
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-8018-4445-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is a newly expanded edition of Edwards' classic volume on scientific inference, in which he argues that the appropriate axiomatic basis for inductive inference is not that of probability, with its addition axiom, but that of likelihood, the concept introduced by Fisher as a measure of relative support among different hypotheses.
Reviews / Votes
"An important text and, in addition, is a joy to read, being a paragon of lucid and witty exposition."--'Mathematical Gazette' "This book, by a well-known geneticist, will do much to publicize the generality of the likelihood method as a foundation for statistical procedure."--'Operations Research' "Full of appropriate examples (especially from genetics) and historical commentary, this monograph offers a rare simultaneous treatment of both mathematical and philosophical foundations."--'American Mathematical Monthly'More details
Edition
expanded edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4445-4 (9780801844454)
DOI
10.56021/9780801844454
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
A. W. F. Edwards
Likelihood
Book
11/1992
2nd Edition
Johns Hopkins University Press
€39.90
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Person
A. W. F. Edwards is reader in biometry and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, England. He is the author of 'Foundations of Mathematical Genetics' and 'Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle.'
Content
Prologue on probability; the concept of likelihood; support; Bayes' theorem and inverse probability; maximum support - the method of maximum likelihood; the method of support for several paramters; expected information and the distribution of evaluates; application in anomalous cases; support tests; miscellaneous topics. Appendices: a problem in the doctrine of chances; the history of likelihood; fiducial distributions; the likelihood treatment of linear regression; R.A. Fisher's work on statistical inference.