The reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: a biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth (with comments and rejoinder)

DOI10.1214/088342304000000189MaRDI QIDQ1766313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David R. Bellhouse

Publication date 7 March 2005

Published in Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/088342304000000189

zbMATH Keywords

BiographyBirthday

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

The paper is a biography of Thomas Bayes (1701?--1761). It includes both information on his life, family background and education as well as his scientific and theological work. In contrast to some biographies of Bayes it is an attempt to cover areas beyond Bayes' scientific life. It contains new information about him. The paper contains an extensive bibliography. It is supplemented by four comments written by A. Dale, A.W.F. Edwards, D.V. Lindley and S.M. Stigler as well as by a rejoinder by D. Bellhouse.

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