[asa] Statistics and Christian faith

To all:

I am forwarding this request from Andrew Hartley. He has written a
book on a Christian perspective in statistics and is interested in
getting feedback from those on this list. Please respond to him at
the e-mail listed below. If you do respond back to this list, please
copy it to his e-mail as he is not on this list.

Keith

>>> A new book, “Christian and Humanist Foundations for
>>>
Statistical Inference,” analyzes some relations
between religion and statistics. According to the
Philosophy of the Law Idea (PLI), developed by such
reformational philosophers as Abraham Kuyper and
Herman Dooyeweerd, the most important relations
between religion and science in general are the ways
religious beliefs control scientific theorizing. These
beliefs set bounds for philosophical overviews of
reality which, in turn, set bounds for scientific
thinking. Among such overviews are the biblically
consistent one provided by the PLI, and certain
humanist “mathematicist” and “subjectivist” overviews.

A wide variety of sciences, on the other hand, call on
statistical methods to evaluate the credibility of
their hypotheses, given empirical data. This book
reviews various popular paradigms, or systems of
theories, concerning how that credibility may be
evaluated, and identifies some ways these paradigms
have been controlled by religiously controlled
overviews of reality. In particular, one paradigm
harmonizes with the PLI's overview; another, with the
subjectivist overview; and two others, with the
mathematicist overview.

The book is available at
http://wipfandstock.com/store/
Christian_and_Humanist_Foundations_for_Statistical_Inference_Religious_C
ontrol_of_Statistical_Paradigms.
The author, Andrew M. Hartley, PhD, can be reached for
discussion at <khahstats@yahoo.com>

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Received on Sat Feb 16 12:12:00 2008