商品簡介
Chang, the vice president of biometrics at AMAG Pharmaceuticals, offers a comprehensive textbook that may also serve as a reference of paradoxes encountered in scientific and mathematical reasoning. He opens up the text with relatively simple or commonplace paradoxes, that include quips of wisdom and explores the application of them. Later sections focus on mathematics, statistics, principles of science, and artificial intelligence. Each section is highly structured and walks through the cognitive mis-steps that are possible with paradoxes. The reader isn't merely kept from confusion, but also introduced to the cognitive leaps encountering such paradoxes can engender and that are the ground of scientific creativity. At the end of each chapter is a review section and exercises. It is not a mathematically advanced book, but Chang does use notation that he keeps simple. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Mark Chang is vice president of biometrics at AMAG Pharmaceuticals and an adjunct professor at Boston University. Dr. Chang is a co-founder of the International Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics and an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. He serves on the editorial boards of several statistical journals and has published five books on biostatistics and clinical trial designs.
