Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named. On Probability - Σελίδα 45των John William Lubbock, John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1830 - 64 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| 1764 - 598 σελίδες
...reafonings concerning pail t'.,c> ., and what is likely to happen hereafter. The problem is this : * Given the number of times in which an unknown event...chance that the probability of its happening in a fingle trial lies fomewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be defired.' As we have... | |
| severak hands - 1764 - 590 σελίδες
...to happen hereafter. The problem is this: * 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 lies fomewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be delir.-'d.' As we have... | |
| William Morgan - 1815 - 212 σελίδες
...chances, for " determining from the numbers of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed, the chance that the probability of its happening in...any two degrees of probability that can be named." The important purposes to which this problem might be applied, induced him to undertake the task of... | |
| 1815 - 880 σελίδες
...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... | |
| 1815 - 876 σελίδες
...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... | |
| David Jones (actuary.) - 1843 - 734 σελίδες
...investigations, he proceeds, among other things, to examine the method of determining probabilities & posteriori, that is to say, by often-repeated experiment:...which it was then the fashion to represent inte• Pbj'sic*, lib. u. c»y. 6. — deposit ought to be inversely proportional to the risk, which therefore... | |
| William Turner - 1843 - 466 σελίδες
...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 - 1965 - 248 σελίδες
...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...any two degrees of probability that can be named.' Judging by his treatment, this problem should be explicated in my terms thus: Given a chance set-up... | |
| William S. Peters - 1987 - 310 σελίδες
...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:...any two degrees of probability that can be named. [13] He then reviews basic definitions and laws of probability. His Proposition 5, known to us as Bayes'... | |
| John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman - 1990 - 340 σελίδες
...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...any two degrees of probability that can be named.' Bayes' solution depended on two original ideas. The first, in the modern notation where p(A \ B) means... | |
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