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Interpreting probability : controversies and developments in the early twentieth century /
This book investigates how Bayesianism as one theory of probability was discredited during the 1920s and 1930s by two British scientists and shows how the choice of a certain interpretation of probability depends on the experiences of the individuals involved.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Probability up to the Twentieth Century; 3 R.A. Fisher and Statistical Probability; 4 Harold Jeffreys and Inverse Probability; 5 The Fisher ... Jeffreys Exchange, 1932 ... 1934; 6 Probability During the 1930s; 7 Epilogue and Conclusions; Appendix 1 Sources for Chapter 2; Appendix 2 Bayesian Conditioning as a Model of Scientific Inference; Appendix 3 Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes; Bibliography; Index.