The Myth of Statistical Inference

This book proposes and explores the idea that the forced union of the aleatory and epistemic aspects of probability is a sterile hybrid, inspired and nourished for 300 years by a false hope of formalizing inductive reasoning, making uncertainty the object of precise calculation.  Because this is not really a possible goal, statistical inference is not, cannot be, doing for us today what we imagine it is doing for us.  It is for these reasons that statistical inference ca