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2. An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances

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   The title comes from the contemporary use of the phrase "doctrine of chances" to mean the theory of probability, which had been introduced via the title of a book by Abraham de Moivre. Contemporary reprints of the essay carry a more specific and significant title: A Method of Calculating the Exact Probability of All Conclusions Founded on ...

3. List of important publications in statistics - Wikipedia

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   Importance: Made measure-theoretic probability the standard language for advanced statistics in the English-speaking world, following its earlier adoption in France and the USSR. Statistical Decision Functions. Author: Abraham Wald Publication data: 1950. John Wiley & Sons. Description: Exposition of statistical decision theory as a foundations ...

4. Counterexamples in Probability - Wikipedia

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   Counterexamples in Probability is a mathematics book by Jordan M. Stoyanov. Intended to serve as a supplemental text for classes on probability theory and related topics, it covers cases where a mathematical proposition might seem to be true but actually turns out to be false. First published in 1987, the book received a second edition in 1997 ...

5. Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 - Wikipedia

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   First edition. Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 is an introductory undergraduate-level textbook on probability theory, centered on the metaphor of games of chance. [1] It was written by Benedict Gross, Joe Harris, and Emily Riehl, based on a course for non-mathematicians taught to Harvard University undergraduates, and published by the Cambridge University Press in 2019.

6. The Doctrine of Chances - Wikipedia

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   The Doctrine of Chances was the first textbook on probability theory, written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718. [1] De Moivre wrote in English because he resided in England at the time, having fled France to escape the persecution of Huguenots. The book's title came to be synonymous with ...

7. Probability theory - Wikipedia

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   Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set of axioms. Typically these axioms formalise probability in terms of a ...

8. The Taming of Chance - Wikipedia

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   The Taming of Chance has been described as ground-breaking. [3] The book received positive reviews from the statistician Dennis Lindley in Nature, [4] the philosopher Stephen P. Turner in the American Journal of Sociology, [5] the historian of science Theodore M. Porter in American Scientist and in Poetics Today, [6] [7] and Timothy L. Alborn in Isis. [8]

9. Probability - Wikipedia

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   Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an event is to occur. [note 1][1][2] A simple example is the tossing of a fair (unbiased) coin.