Thomas Bayes

D. V. Lindley

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 68-71 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The problem of passing from a population to the properties of a sample was one of the first studied in probability. Thomas Bayes, a nonconformist minister, was the first to solve the inverse problem of passage from sample to population, using ideas that are widely used today.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_13

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