Intelligence Analysis as Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments:
Connecting the Dots
Gheorghe Tecuci, David A. Schum, Dorin Marcu, Mihai Boicu

 
Intelligence Analysis as Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments:
Connecting the Dots
 
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
(August 2016)
ISBN: 9781107122604
 

This unique book on intelligence analysis covers several vital but often overlooked topics. It teaches the evidential and inferential issues involved in "connecting the dots" to draw defensible and persuasive conclusions from masses of evidence: from observations we make, or questions we ask, we generate alternative hypotheses as explanations or answers; we make use of our hypotheses to generate new lines of inquiry and discover new evidence; and we test the hypotheses with the discovered evidence. To facilitate understanding of these issues and enable the performance of complex analyses, the book introduces an intelligent analytical tool, called Disciple-CD.

Readers will practice with Disciple-CD and learn how to formulate hypotheses; develop arguments that reduce complex hypotheses to simpler ones; collect evidence to evaluate the simplest hypotheses; and assess the relevance and the believability of evidence, which combine in complex ways to determine its inferential force and the probabilities of the hypotheses.
See http://lac.gmu.edu/IABook/

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