Symmetry and Its Discontents Essays on the History of Inductive Probability

By:

Zabell, S L

Contributor(s):

Zabell, S L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Cambridge University 2005Description: 279pISBN:

9780521449120

DDC classification:

N11 Z111

Partial contents:

PART ONE. PROBABILITY 1. Symmetry and Its Discontents 3 2. The Rule of Succession 38 3. Buffon, Price, and Laplace: Scientific Attribution in the 18th Century 74 4. W. E. Johnson`s "Sufficientness" Postulate 84 PART TWO. PERSONALITIES 5. The Birth of the Central Limit Theorem [with Persi Diaconis] 99 6. Ramsey, Truth, and Probability 119 7. R. A. Fisher on the History of Inverse Probability 142 8. R. A. Fisher and the Fiducial Argument 161 9. Alan Turing and the Central Limit Theorem 199 PART THREE. PREDICTION 10. Predicting the Unpredictable 217 11. The Continuum of Inductive Methods Revisited 243

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