Likelihood: An Account of the Statistical Concept of Likelihood and its Application to Scientific Inference

by A.W.F. Edwards, Mickey Edwards

Dr Edwards' stimulating and provocative book advances the thesis that the appropriate axiomatic basis for inductive inference is not that of probability, with its addition axiom, but rather likelihood - the concept introduced by Fisher as a measure of relative support amongst different hypotheses. Starting from the simplest considerations and assuming no more than a modest acquaintance with probability theory, the author sets out to reconstruct nothing less than a consistent theory of statistical inference in science.

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction, Science

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Anthony William Fairbank Edwards