Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?

DOI10.2307/2682766zbMATH Open0537.62004OpenAlexW4255237382WikidataQ55966546 ScholiaQ55966546MaRDI QIDQ3322992FDOQ3322992

Stephen M. Stigler

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2682766

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zbMATH Keywords

Bayes theoremD. HartleyR. PriceT. BayesDe Moivre's limit theoremJ. CantonN. Saunderon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of statistics (62-03)

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