Probability and Social Science: Methodological Relationships between the two ...

By Daniel Courgeau

- Links between Probability Theory and Social Science at their inception

- Statistical Inference, Inference, and Social Science

1 - From Probability to Social Science 

    - First Step The Classical Theory

    - Second Step A Frequentist Theory

   - Paradigm and Axiomatics of Object Probability Theory

    - The Paradigm

    - The Axioms

   - Objectivist Statistical Inference

   - Application to Social Science

   - Problems Posed by the Objective approach

2 - The Epistemic Approach: Subjectivist Interpretation

  - Subjectivist Probability

 - Paradigm and Axiomatics of Object Probability Theory

  - The Paradigm

  - The Axioms

 - Subjectivist Statistical Inference

  - Applications to Social Science 

- Problems Posed by the Subjective approach