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This note seeks to survey crucial issues and to pinpoint difficulties in the current controversy over the meaning of measurement [2] and its proper mathematical description in quantum physics. It deals primarily with those philosophic and mathematical considerations which arise from the statistical nature of the results of physical measurements. The first part reviews and aims to clarify matters of more or less general interest; the second and third are devoted to some specific recent results concerning joint probabilities and phase-space distribution functions.
Work supported by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant AFOSR 843/65.
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Margenau, H., Cohen, L. (1967). Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics. In: Bunge, M. (eds) Quantum Theory and Reality. Studies in the Foundations Methodology and Philosophy of Science, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88026-1_5
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