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

DOI10.2307/2289056MaRDI QIDQ4727982zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen M. Stigler

Publication date 1986

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

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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