Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn

DOI10.1080/17498430.2014.889269MaRDI QIDQ2935401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lukas M. Verburgt

Publication date 29 December 2014

Published in BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2014.889269

zbMATH Keywords

probability theoryrelative frequency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of probability theory (60-03)

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Cites work

• A history of parametric statistical inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713--1935
• Causation, randomness, and pseudo-randomness in John Venn'slogic of chance
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• Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy of science and the foundations of probability theory
• The significance of Jacob Bernoulli's \textit{Ars Conjectandi} for the philosophy of probability today

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• The reception of John Venn's philosophy of probability
• A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859
• W.E. Johnson and Cambridge thought on probability
• John Venn's hypothetical infinite frequentism and logic
• A letter of Robert Leslie Ellis to William Walton on probability

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