This book discusses a link between statistical theory and quantum theory based on the concept of epistemic processes – which can be e.g. The book describes a possible epistemic foundation of quantum theory. Hence the book can also be seen as a motivation for further research into quantum decision theory and quantum models for cognition.
Inge S. Helland completed his cand.mag (B.S.) in mathematics and physics at the University of Bergen in 1970. After a research fellowship at The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen in fall 1971, he turned to statistics, and completed his cand.real. (M.S.) at the University of Bergen in 1973. He was a fellow at the University of Bergen from 1973 to1978, including a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and 1978. He was then an Associate Professor of Statistics at the Agricultural University of Norway, later Norwegian University of Life Sciences, from 1978 to 1983, and Professor at the same university from 1983 to 1996. He obtained his dr. philos. degree on limit theorems for stochastic processes from the University of Oslo in 1980, and was Professor of Statistics at the University of Oslo from 1996 to 2012, when he went took on an emeritus position. His research covers a large area of theoretical and applied statistics, including proposing a statistical model connected to the chemometricians’ partial least squares algorithm.
Innehållsförteckning
1. The epistemic view upon science. - 2. Statistical inference. - 3. Inference in an epistemic process. - 4. Towards quantum theory. - 5. Aspects of quantum theory. - 6. Macroscopic consequences.