Book contents
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
- Dicing with Death
- Dicing with Death
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Permissions
- 1 Circling the Square
- 2 The Diceman Cometh
- 3 Trials of Life
- 4 Of Dice and Men*
- 5 Sex and the Single Patient
- 6 A Hale View of Pills (and Other Matters)
- 7 Time’s Tables
- 8 A Dip in the Pool
- 9 The Things that Bug Us*
- 10 The Law Is a Ass
- 11 The Empire of the Sum
- 12 Going Viral
- Notes
- Index
Summary
A link is made between epistemology – that is to say, the philosophy of knowledge – and statistics. Hume's criticism of induction is covered, as is Popper's. Various philosophies of statistics are described.
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- Dicing with DeathLiving by Data, pp. 74 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022