Think you know the difference? Some people try to attack things like evolution by natural selection and man-made climate change by saying “Oh, that’s just a THEORY!” Yes, they are both theories. Stop ...

When reading scientific articles (and many other articles on Futurism), you’ll likely to come across the terms “hypothesis,” “theory,” ” and “law.” In the scientific community, these words have very ...

We formulate the problem of choosing between two hypotheses as a problem of constructing a data-dependent evidential measure for or against the null hypothesis. Our main focus is on the multivariate ...

As this is the fourth edition—though enlarged and partly re-written—of the work under notice, it is not necessary to review it in detail. It is sufficient to mention, by way of reminder, that for the ...