Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice
eBook - ePub

Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice

About this book

Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research practices across a wide spectrum of scientific fields. It compares methodologies and presents the ingredients needed for an overarching framework applicable to all.

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Yes, you can access Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice by Marcel Boumans,Giora Hon,Arthur Petersen,Arthur C. Petersen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781317319474
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Contributors
  8. List of Figures and Tables
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Lack of a Satisfactory Conceptualization of the Notion of Error in the Historiography of Science: Two Main Approaches and Shortcomings
  11. 2 Experimental Knowledge in the Face of Theoretical Error
  12. 3 Learning from Error: How Experiment Gets a Life (of its Own)
  13. 4 Modelling Measurement: Error and Uncertainty
  14. 5 Handling Uncertainty in Environmental Models at the Science-Policy-Society Interfaces
  15. 6 Variations on Reliability: Connecting Climate Predictions to Climate Policy
  16. 7 Order and Indeterminism: An Info-Gap Perspective
  17. 8 Learning from Data: The Role of Error in Statistical Modelling and Inference
  18. Notes
  19. Index