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Scientiae Studia 2006
Construtivismo cognitivo e estatística bayesianaDOI: 10.1590/S1678-31662006000400003 Keywords: autopoiesis, eigen-solutions, cognitive constructivism, epistemology, sharp hypotheses, statistical significance, systems theory. Abstract: in this paper, some epistemological, ontological, and sociological issues are investigated, concerning the statistical significance of sharp hypotheses in scientific research, within the framework offered by cognitive constructivism and fbst - the full bayesian significance test. the constructivist framework is contrasted to those furnished by decision theory and falsificationism, the traditional epistemological approaches to orthodox bayesian statistics and to frequentist statistics.
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