| severak hands - 1764 - 590 pages
...utmoft importance, as it will torm a folid foundation for all our reafonings concerning part fjtb, and what is likely to happen hereafter. The problem...Given the number of times in which an unknown event bas happened and failed : required the chance that the probability of its happening in a fingie trial... | |
| 1815 - 876 pages
...imperfect solution of one of the most difficult problems in the doctrine of chances, for " determining from the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed, the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 880 pages
...imperfect solution of one of the most difficult problems in the doctrine of chances, for " determining from the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed, the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees... | |
| John William Lubbock, John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - Probabilities - 1830 - 84 pages
...subject of annuities. The problem which Bayes proposes to solve in this paper is the following : — Given the number of times in which an unknown event...chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named. When disencumbered... | |
| David Jones (actuary.) - Annuities - 1843 - 734 pages
...subject of annuities. The problem which Bayes proposes to solve in this paper is the following : — Given the number of times in which an unknown event...chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named. When disencumbered... | |
| William Turner - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1843 - 466 pages
...to an imperfect solution of an important problem in the doctrine of chances ; for " determining from the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed, the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees... | |
| Ian Hacking - Philosophy - 1965 - 248 pages
...fluffy flakes, but it would not follow that the word ' snow ' has two different meanings. Bayes' problem 'Given the number of times in which an unknown event...chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named.' Judging by his... | |
| William S. Peters - Mathematics - 1987 - 310 pages
...before been solved.” [12] Bayes states the problem immediately in the essay Given the number oftimes in which an unknown event has happened and failed:...chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named. [13] He then... | |
| Roberto Torretti - Science - 1990 - 386 pages
...problem of inferring chances from frequencies (a problem he stated, with classical clarity, as follows: "Given the number of times in which an unknown event...chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named" — Bayes 1763,... | |
| John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman - Business & Economics - 1990 - 340 pages
...the brilliance of Bayes' argument. The problem was this (as stated at the beginning of the paper): 'Given the number of times in which an unknown event...chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named.' Bayes' solution... | |
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