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}}</ref>It becomes essential, therefore, in this scenario to distinguish between these two uncertainties and to show that the concept of probability has different meanings in these two contexts. We will try to expose these concepts by linking each crucial step to the clinical approach that has been reported in the previous chapters and in particular the approach in the dental and neurological context in contending for the primacy of the diagnosis for our dear Mary Poppins. | }}</ref>It becomes essential, therefore, in this scenario to distinguish between these two uncertainties and to show that the concept of probability has different meanings in these two contexts. We will try to expose these concepts by linking each crucial step to the clinical approach that has been reported in the previous chapters and in particular the approach in the dental and neurological context in contending for the primacy of the diagnosis for our dear Mary Poppins. | ||
==Subjective uncertainty and casualità== | ==Subjective uncertainty and casualità== | ||
Let us imagine asking Mary Poppins which of the two medical colleagues — the dentist or the neurologist — is right. | Let us imagine asking Mary Poppins which of the two medical colleagues — the dentist or the neurologist — is right. | ||
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The casuality indicates the lack of a certain connection between cause and effect. The uncertainty of a close union between the source and the phenomenon is among the most adverse problems in determining a diagnosis. | The casuality indicates the lack of a certain connection between cause and effect. The uncertainty of a close union between the source and the phenomenon is among the most adverse problems in determining a diagnosis. | ||
In a clinical case a phenomenon <math>A(x)</math> (such as for example a malocclusion, a crossbite, an openbite, etc ...) is randomly associated with another phenomenon <math>B(x)</math> (such as TMJ bone degeneration); when there are exceptions for which the logical proposition <math>A(x) \rightarrow B(x)</math> it's not always true (but it is most of the time), we will say that the relation <math>A(x) \rightarrow B(x)</math> is not always true but it is probable.{{q2|<!--30-->We are moving from a deterministic condition to a stochastic one.| | In a clinical case a phenomenon <math>A(x)</math> (such as for example a malocclusion, a crossbite, an openbite, etc ...) is randomly associated with another phenomenon <math>B(x)</math> (such as TMJ bone degeneration); when there are exceptions for which the logical proposition <math>A(x) \rightarrow B(x)</math> it's not always true (but it is most of the time), we will say that the relation <math>A(x) \rightarrow B(x)</math> is not always true but it is probable.{{q2|<!--30-->We are moving from a deterministic condition to a stochastic one.|}} | ||
==Subjective and objective probability== | ==Subjective and objective probability== | ||
In this chapter, some topics already treated in the fantastic book by Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh<ref>{{cita libro | In this chapter, some topics already treated in the fantastic book by Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh<ref>{{cita libro | ||
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On the other hand, events and random processes cannot be described by deterministic processes in the form 'if A then B'. Statistics are used to quantify the frequency of association between A and B and to represent the relationships between them as a degree of probability that introduces the degree of objective probability. | On the other hand, events and random processes cannot be described by deterministic processes in the form 'if A then B'. Statistics are used to quantify the frequency of association between A and B and to represent the relationships between them as a degree of probability that introduces the degree of objective probability. | ||
In the wake of the growing probabilization of uncertainty and randomness in medicine since the eighteenth century, the term "probability" has become a respected element of medical language, methodology and epistemology. Unfortunately, the two types of probability, the subjective probability and the objective one, are not accurately differentiated in medicine, and the same happens in other disciplines too. The fundamental fact remains that the most important meaning that probability theory has generated in medicine, particularly in the concepts of probability in aetiology, epidemiology, diagnostics and therapy, is its contribution to our understanding and representation of biological casuality. | In the wake of the growing probabilization of uncertainty and randomness in medicine since the eighteenth century, the term "probability" has become a respected element of medical language, methodology and epistemology. Unfortunately, the two types of probability, the subjective probability and the objective one, are not accurately differentiated in medicine, and the same happens in other disciplines too. The fundamental fact remains that the most important meaning that probability theory has generated in medicine, particularly in the concepts of probability in aetiology, epidemiology, diagnostics and therapy, is its contribution to our understanding and representation of biological casuality. | ||
==Probabilistic-causal analysis== | ==Probabilistic-causal analysis== | ||