Causation - A philosophy of statistics

... have good examples today of the hazards of this apparently hard-nosed “biological” approach to medicine, disparaging clinical research and statistical methods. A great example is the Swan-Ganz ... where randomized data are more valid than observational data (Soldani et al., 2005). ese are new methods and major advances in medical treatment in the past 50 years are unimaginable without...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20

... the aero- plane was capable of reaching. 4. Gradually a picture was built up of the annual and short term variation patterns for stratospheric ozone. A strong correlation of the short term variations ... disputes about matters of fact might be resolved in a court of law. The science is clearly flawed, for example, if a particular result is claimed as an entailment of a pa...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 16:56

... (e.g. _Samarâicca-kahâ, Upamitabhavaprapañca-kathâ_ in Prâkrit, and the _Yas'astilaka_ of Somadeva and Dhanapâla's _Tilakamañjarî_); Jaina Sanskrit poems both in the Purâ@na and Kâvya style ... Ta@ndulavaiyâlî, Ca@n@dâvîja, Devendrastava, Ga@nivîja, Mahâpratyâkhyâna, Vîrastava_.] [Footnote 3: _Nis'îtha, Mahânis'îtha, Vyavahâra, Das'as'rutaskandha, B@rhatkalpa,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20

... observer, that moral attainments and moral greatness are more honoured by Nature, and are, of course, more valuable to man, than the possession of either intellectual or physical good.—Nature has, ... cultivation of chemistry, and other branches of natural science, has, of late years, given an extraordinary stimulus to the arts, yet the science of education, from which the art...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... day at a branch of a fast- food chain 15. The number of cars that arrive per hour at a parking lot is an example of: (a) a categorical variable (b) a discrete variable (c) a continuous variable (d) ... only a sample of the popu- lation is called: (a) a parameter (b) a population (c) a discrete variable (d) a statistic 3. The height of an individual is an exam...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:11

... years, BTS operated primarily 2 BTS is also charged with more specific tasks relating to the National Transportation Library, the National Transportation Atlas Database, international data, and ... strategic plan- ning and policy making. The ISTEA legislation also mandated that the National Academy of Sciences [National Research Council (NRC)] re- view the statistical programs and practices...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

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Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... exist in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment ago. There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking. This is in the affairs of the ... that in everything there is manifested a measured motion, to and fro; a flow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a pendulum- like movement; a tide-like ebb and f...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 02:21

... and generation he was surpassed by none as a physician; and Saadia alone far outstrips him as a Jewish writer, and perhaps also David Al Mukammas, of whom we shall speak later. Whatever may be said of ... memory, imagination and judgment, are ultimately based upon Aristotle and are found in Judah Halevi, Abraham Ibn Daud and Maimonides, who derived them from Avicenna and Alfarabi. In...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20