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Interpreting probability : controversies and developments in the early twentieth century
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Interpreting probability : controversies and developments in the early twentieth century

Autor: David Howie
Editorial: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Serie: Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.
Edición/Formato:  Libro : Inglés (eng)Ver todas las ediciones y todos los formatos
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This 2002 book investigates how Bayesianism as one theory of probability was discredited in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Género/Forma: Einführung
Persona designada: Harold Jeffreys; Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Sir
Tipo de material: Recurso en Internet
Tipo de documento: Libro/Texto, Recurso en Internet
Todos autores / colaboradores: David Howie
ISBN: 0521812518 9780521812511
Número OCLC: 48084073
Descripción: xi, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contenido: The meaning of probability --
The history of probability --
Scope of this book --
Methods and argument --
Synopsis and aims --
Probability up to the Twentieth Century --
Early applications of the probability calculus --
Resistance to the calculation of uncertainty --
The doctrine of chances --
Inverse probability --
Laplacean probability --
The eclipse of Laplacean probability --
Social statistics --
The rise of the frequency interpretation of probability --
Opposition to social statistics and probabilistic methods --
Probability theory in the sciences: evolution and biometrics --
The interpretation of probability around the end of the nineteenth century --
R.A. Fisher and Statistical Probability --
R.A. Fisher's early years --
Evolution --
the biometricians versus the Mendelians --
Fisher's early work --
The clash with Pearson --
Fisher's rejection of inverse probability --
Fisher's new version of probability --
The papers of 1921 and 1922 --
The Pearson-Fisher feud --
The move to Rothamsted: experimental design --
The position in 1925 --
Statistical Methods for Research Workers --
The development of fiducial probability --
Fisher's position in 1932 --
Harold Jeffreys and Inverse Probability --
Jeffreys's background and early career --
The Meteorological Office --
Dorothy Wrinch --
Broad's 1918 paper --
Wrinch and Jeffreys tackle probability --
After the first paper --
General relativity --
The Oppau explosion --
New work on probability --
John Maynard Keynes --
Other factors --
Probability theory extended.
Título de la serie: Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.
Responsabilidad: David Howie.
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