Inferring Scientific Truth: Tests of Significance
Human knowledge advances continuously; scientific researchers gain new knowledge every day. What methods they use? When a phenomenon occurs, reasonable people try to detect what causes it, and put forward hypotheses that seem plausible. By observing further occurrences, some hypotheses are enhanced, some others diminished or even rejected, i.e. the plausibility of each explanatory hypothesis is re-evaluated.
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Roventa, E., Spircu, T. (2009). Statistical Inference. In: Management of Knowledge Imperfection in Building Intelligent Systems. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77463-1_4
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