Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century

by David Howie

Book Overview

The term probability can be used in two main senses. In the frequency interpretation it is a limiting ratio in a sequence of repeatable events. In the Bayesian view, probability is a mental construct representing uncertainty. This 2002 book is about these two types of probability and investigates how, despite being adopted by scientists and statisticians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Bayesianism was discredited as a theory of scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521037549
• ISBN13: 9780521037549
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"