Information, inference and decision

I. Objective Theory of Inductive Behaviour.- Elements of an Objective Theory of Inductive Behaviour.- On the Problem of Vagueness in the Social Sciences.- Notes On Etiality, the Adaptation Criterion, and the 'Inference-Decision' Problem.- II. Problems of Inference.- Comparison of Inference Philosophies.- On the Logic of Tests of Significance with Special Reference to Testing the Significance of Poisson-Distributed Observations.- III. Probability, Information and Utility.- Probability and Utility - Dual Concepts in Decision Theory.- Entropy and Utility.- Entropy, Gravity and Utility in Transportation Modelling.- IV. Semantic Information.- Prior and Posterior Probabilities and Semantic Information.- Remarks on Semantic Information.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.