“A Guide for the Perplexed” by Sayyid Kazim Rashti. Translated from Arabic and Persian. Part 4

A Guide for the Perplexed

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

چکیده ندارد.

A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed

Preamble The meaning of “ethical” adopted here is one of being in accordance with the accepted rules or standards for right conduct that govern the practice of some profession. The professions we have in mind are statistics and the behavioral sciences, and the standards for ethical practice are what we try to instill in our students through the methodology courses we offer, with particular emph...

Entropy – A Guide for the Perplexed

Entropy is ubiquitous in physics, and it plays important roles in numerous other disciplines ranging from logic and statistics to biology and economics. However, a closer look reveals a complicated picture: entropy is defined differently in different contexts, and even within the same domain different notions of entropy are at work. Some of these are defined in terms of probabilities, others ar...

Understanding risk: a guide for the perplexed.

Over the course of the past decade, neurobiologists have become increasingly interested in concepts and models imported from economics. Terms such as "risk," "risk aversion," and "utility" have become commonplace in the neuroscientific literature as single-unit physiologists and human cognitive neuroscientists search for the biological correlates of economic theories of value and choice. Among ...