Propensities, Probabilities, and Experimental Statistics

European Studies in Philosophy of Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 335-345

  Suárez, Mauricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chance; Modelling; Probability; Propensities; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099209300     PISSN: 23654228     EISSN: 23654236     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53730-6_27     Document Type: Chapter

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