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Analytic Theory of Probability
work by Laplace
Also known as: “Théorie analytique des probabilités”
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discussed in biography
- In Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
…Théorie analytique des probabilités (Analytic Theory of Probability), first published in 1812, in which he described many of the tools he invented for mathematically predicting the probabilities that particular events will occur in nature. He applied his theory not only to the ordinary problems of chance but also to…
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normal distribution
- In normal distribution
Pierre-Simon Laplace, in his Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812; “Analytic Theory of Probability”), into the first central limit theorem, which proved that probabilities for almost all independent and identically distributed random variables converge rapidly (with sample size) to the area under an exponential function—that is, to a normal distribution.…
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