Symmetry and its discontents : essays on the history of inductive probability /
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Author / Creator: | Zabell, S. L., 1947- |
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Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11811861 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Probability
- 1. Symmetry and its discontents
- 2. The rule of succession
- 3. Buffon, Price, and Laplace: scientific attribution in the eighteenth century
- 4. W. E. Johnson's sufficientness postulate
- Part II. Personalities: 5 Abraham De Moivre and the birth of the Central Limit Theorem; 6 Ramsey, truth, and probability
- 7. R. A. Fisher on the history of inverse probability
- 8. R. A. Fisher and the fiducial argument
- 9. Alan Turing and the Central Limit Theorem
- Part III. Prediction: 1
- 0. Predicting the unpredictable; 1
- 1. The continuum of inductive methods revised