John Craig and the Probability of History: From the Death of Christ to the Birth of Laplace

DOI10.2307/2289056zbMATH Open0618.62003OpenAlexW4241259658MaRDI QIDQ4727982FDOQ4727982

Authors: Stephen M. Stigler 

Publication date: 1986

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2289056

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zbMATH Keywords

logistic regressionevidenceposterior oddsprobability of testimonyapocalyptic inferencelog of the likelihood ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of statistics (62-03)

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