Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?

DOI10.2307/2682766MaRDI QIDQ3322992zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors 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

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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