Teaching statistics in the physics curriculum: Unifying and clarifying role of subjective probability
| Autor: | Giulio D’Agostini |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Probability (math.PR)
Physics - Physics Education FOS: Physical sciences General Physics and Astronomy Bayesian inference Degree (music) Probability theory Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) Physics - Data Analysis Statistics and Probability FOS: Mathematics Curriculum Mathematics - Probability Data Analysis Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) Event (probability theory) Cognitive psychology |
| Popis: | Subjective probability is based on the intuitive idea that probability quantifies the degree of belief that an event will occur. A probability theory based on this idea represents the most general framework for handling uncertainty. A brief introduction to subjective probability and Bayesian inference is given, with comments on typical misconceptions which tend to discredit it and comparisons to other approaches. Comment: 15 pages, LateX, 1 eps figure, corrected some typos. Invited paper for the American Journal of Physics. This paper and related work are also available at http://www-zeus.roma1.infn.it/~agostini/ |
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