This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Much of scientific inference involves fitting numerical data with a curve, or functional relation. The received view is that the fittest curve ...

Prasanta S. Bandyopadhayay, Robert J. Boik, Prasun Basu, The Curve Fitting Problem: A Bayesian Approach, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 63, No. 5, Supplement. Proceedings of the 1996 Biennial Meetings of ...