附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Probability up to the Twentieth Century; 3 R.A. Fisher and Statistical Probability; 4 Harold Jeffreys and Inverse Probability; 5 The Fisher ... Jeffreys Exchange, 1932 ... 1934; 6 Probability During the 1930s; 7 Epilogue and Conclusions; Appendix 1 Sources for Chapter 2; Appendix 2 Bayesian Conditioning as a Model of Scientific Inference; Appendix 3 Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:This book investigates how Bayesianism as one theory of probability was discredited during the 1920s and 1930s by two British scientists and shows how the choice of a certain interpretation of probability depends on the experiences of the individuals involved.
