The Art of Abduction by Igor Douven

Author:Igor Douven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: abduction; Bayesianism; cognitive science; computer simulations; formal epistemology;inference to the best explanation; philosophy; rationality; reasoning; skepticism
Publisher: MIT Press

1. Or the quadratic scoring rule, which is a generalization of the Brier score; see the subsequent discussion.

2. With regard to the Brier score, note that as long as one makes comparisons given a fixed number of hypotheses, division by that number is not strictly necessary and should be considered optional. It thus appears unproblematic to equate, for most practical purposes, the Brier score with what Rosenkrantz (1992, ch. 2) calls the “least squares” score (which is, for instance, also what Leitgeb & Pettigrew, 2010a, and Pettigrew, 2016, do).

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