Measurement and Probability A Probabilistic Theory of Measurement with Applications /

• Main Author: Rossi, Giovanni Battista (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology,
• Subjects: Physics.; Game theory.; Engineering.; Psychometrics.; Applied and Technical Physics.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Engineering, general.

Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world. Is it possible to develop a single theory of...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: General Problems
• 1 Measurability
• 2 Uncertainty
• Part II: Theory
• 3 The Measurement Scale: Deterministic Framework
• 4 The Measurement Scale: Probabilistic Approach
• 5 The Measurement Process
• 6 Inference in Measurement
• 7 Multidimensional Measurements
• Part III: Applications
• 8 Perceptual Measurement
• 9 The Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty
• 10 Evaluating Inter-Comparisons
• 11 Measurement-Based Decisions
• 12 Dynamic Measurement
• Appendix
• Bibliography.