M ark L. T aper and S ubhash R. L ele, eds. The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 0-226-78955-1, 0-226-78957-8. Pp. xviii + 567 [Book Review]

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Philosophia Mathematica 13 (2):234-234 (2005)
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AUTHORS AND TITLESPage numbers include commentary and rejoinder.Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Mark L. Taper, and Subhash R. Lele, A brief tour of statistical concepts, pp. 3–16.Brian A. Maurer, Models of scientific inquiry and statistical practice: Implications for the structure of scientific knowledge, pp. 17–50.Samuel M. Scheiner, Experiments, observations, and other kinds of evidence, pp. 51–71.Deborah G. Mayo, An error-statistical philosophy of evidence, pp. 79–118.Richard Royall, The likelihood paradigm for statistical evidence, pp. 119–152.Malcolm Forster and Elliott Sober, Why likelihood?, pp. 153–190.Subhash R. Lele, Evidence functions and the optimality of the law of likelihood, pp. 191–216.Jean A. Miller and Thomas M. Frost, Whole-ecosystem experiments: Replication and arguing from error, pp. 221–274.Mark L. Taper and Subhash R. Lele, Dynamical models as paths to evidence in ecology, pp. 275–297.James H. Brown, Edward J. Bedrick, S.K. Morgan Ernest, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, and Jeffrey F. Kelly, Constraints on negative relationships: Mathematical causes and ecological consequences, pp. 298–323.

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