Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into roughly its modern form by French scientist Pierre Simon Laplace. She reveals why respected statisticians rendered it professionally taboo for 150 years - at the same time that practitioners relied on it to solve crises involving great uncertainty and scanty information, even breaking Germany's Enigma code during World War II, and explains how the advent of off-the-shelf computer technology in the 1980s proved to be a game-changer. Today, Bayes' rule is used everywhere from DNA decoding to Homeland Security. "The Theory That Would Not Die" is a vivid account of the generations-long dispute over one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of applied mathematics and statistics.
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許多人都說這本書的專業度不夠,看來我以後還得研究研究數學。 開頭說貝葉斯法則一言以蔽之,就是通過參考新的客觀信息,可以將我們的舊觀念改進為更好的觀念。並說,這是一個從experience,empirical,或者在信息不足或缺乏完善理論的情況下,做判斷的良好方法。也就是說,它...
評分許多人都說這本書的專業度不夠,看來我以後還得研究研究數學。 開頭說貝葉斯法則一言以蔽之,就是通過參考新的客觀信息,可以將我們的舊觀念改進為更好的觀念。並說,這是一個從experience,empirical,或者在信息不足或缺乏完善理論的情況下,做判斷的良好方法。也就是說,它...
評分許多人都說這本書的專業度不夠,看來我以後還得研究研究數學。 開頭說貝葉斯法則一言以蔽之,就是通過參考新的客觀信息,可以將我們的舊觀念改進為更好的觀念。並說,這是一個從experience,empirical,或者在信息不足或缺乏完善理論的情況下,做判斷的良好方法。也就是說,它...
評分許多人都說這本書的專業度不夠,看來我以後還得研究研究數學。 開頭說貝葉斯法則一言以蔽之,就是通過參考新的客觀信息,可以將我們的舊觀念改進為更好的觀念。並說,這是一個從experience,empirical,或者在信息不足或缺乏完善理論的情況下,做判斷的良好方法。也就是說,它...
評分許多人都說這本書的專業度不夠,看來我以後還得研究研究數學。 開頭說貝葉斯法則一言以蔽之,就是通過參考新的客觀信息,可以將我們的舊觀念改進為更好的觀念。並說,這是一個從experience,empirical,或者在信息不足或缺乏完善理論的情況下,做判斷的良好方法。也就是說,它...
圖書標籤: 數學 貝葉斯 統計學 概率 曆史 思維 統計 Bayesian
這本書的作者不是數學傢,因此有些問題講得不是很透徹,我甚至懷疑某些地方存在錯誤。例如她說算後驗概率時要進行迭代,即將算齣來的結果作為先驗概念再與likelyhood function相乘,Pirre Simon Laplace是這樣做的,而Data Analysis A Bayesian Tutorial在2.1節的末尾明確說這是一種Boot-strip的方法,隻能自欺欺人。
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評分讀這本書的確有一個問題,那就是就算從頭到尾一字不漏,沒有統計學基礎的讀者仍不會明白貝葉斯統計學的數學原理,因為實際上作者隻給齣瞭最最基礎的貝葉斯公式和最最簡單的一些描述,其它的都是曆史故事。但是在我看來,這本曆史科普書打從一開始的目標恐怕就不是講解數學,還是更多展現齣一副在數學概率學統計學專業書中往往一筆帶過的曆史長捲。對於我,讀這本書從另一個角度加深瞭專業理解並提高瞭一些興趣,尤其在今天,相應的問題其實並沒有得到徹底的解決,仍有很多討論各學派優劣的書籍不斷齣版,包括科普和專業的。而我們又應該如何應對這些問題呢?如此麯摺離奇的曆史,如此大牛雲集的領域,以此書為起點準備衝鋒是極好的。不隻是數學相關專業,心理學專業學生也可以讀讀此書。May the beyesian be with you!!!
評分It's about the history of the Baysian statistics. I enjoyed it. But I thought the book tried to hard to avoid any maths details, as if anybody who isn't a math lover would accidentally read this book. At places I really wish the author just put down an equation.
評分貝葉斯學派的人應該也不怎麼喜歡這本書吧。
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