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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48084073 Title: Interpreting probability : controversies and developments in the early twentieth century Author: David Howie Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0521812518 9780521812511 OCLC:48084073

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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

Author:	David Howie
Publisher:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:	Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form:	Einführung
Named Person:	Harold Jeffreys, Sir; Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Sir
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	David Howie Find more information about:
ISBN:	0521812518 9780521812511
OCLC Number:	48084073
Description:	xi, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	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.
Series Title:	Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory.
Responsibility:	David Howie.
More information:	Sample text Table of contents Publisher description

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