Science outside the laboratory : measurement in field science and economics / Marcel Boumans.

Measurement is the assignment of numbers to objects or events according to a rule. But the rules applicable in the field are different from the rules used in the laboratory. Methodologies appropriate for field measurement have to include instructions of how to replace control of the measurand and en...

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Main Author: Boumans, Marcel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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