The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach

by Press, S. James; Tanur, Judith M.

• ISBN13: 9780471396857
• ISBN10: 0471396850
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-16
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Readers will benefit from this cogent and enlightening view of the history of subjectivity in science and the authors' alternative vision of how the Bayesian approach should be used to further the cause of science and learning well into the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

S. JAMES PRESS is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California at Riverside. He is also the author of Bayesian Statistics: Principles, Models, and Applications (Wiley) and Applied Multivariate Analysis: Including Bayesian and Frequentist Methods of Inference.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Selecting the Scientists	17	(6)
Some Well-Known Stories of Extreme Subjectivity	23	(26)
Introduction	23	(1)
Johannes Kepler	23	(3)
Gregor Mendel	26	(8)
Robert Millikan	34	(3)
Cyril Burt	37	(6)
Margaret Mead	43	(6)
Stories of Famous Scientists	49	(150)
Introduction	49	(2)
Aristotle	51	(9)
Galileo Galilei	60	(11)
William Harvey	71	(10)
Sir Isaac Newton	81	(14)
Antoine Lavoisier	95	(15)
Alexander von Humboldt	110	(11)
Michael Faraday	121	(7)
Charles Darwin	128	(15)
Louis Pasteur	143	(13)
Sigmund Freud	156	(10)
Marie Curie	166	(11)
Albert Einstein	177	(12)
Some Conjectures About the Scientists	189	(10)
Subjectivity in Science in Modern Times: The Bayesian Approach	199	(26)
Appendix: References by Field of Application for Bayesian Statistical Science	225	(6)
Bibliography	231	(18)
Subject Index	249	(18)
Name Index	267