Chapter 1 Science

1.1 How you know what you know, and is what you know really so?

Science -

• The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained. Oxford dictionary

• knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through the scientific method. Merriam Webster

• knowledge from the careful study of the structure and behavior of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results from these activities. Cambridge dictionary

1.2 History of scientific inquiry

1.3 Paradigms of Statistical Inference