A Manuscript on Chance Written by John Arbuthnot

DOI10.2307/1403798MaRDI QIDQ3201230zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David R. Bellhouse

Publication date 1989

Published in International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1403798

zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionsex ratiobirthday problemsignificance testsJohn Arbuthnotdicing problemsGregory manuscript collection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of statistics (62-03)

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• On the authorship of ``A calculation of the credibility of human testimony
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• The continental controversy over Arbuthnot's argument for divine providence
• Nicolas Bernoulli's letters on the ``sex ratio
• David Gregory, John Arbuthnot and their roles in the early development of probability in Great Britain
• John Aubrey. \textit{Brief lives} with an apparatus for the lives of our English mathematical writers. 2-vol. set

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