Observations on Man
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probability of causes
- In probability and statistics: The probability of causes
David Hartley announced in his Observations on Man (1749) that a certain “ingenious Friend” had shown him a solution of the “inverse problem” of reasoning from the occurrence of an event p times and its failure q times to the “original Ratio” of causes. But Hartley named no names, and…
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