Richard Price, the first Bayesian

DOI10.1214/17-STS635MaRDI QIDQ667686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen M. Stigler

Publication date 1 March 2019

Published in Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1517562029

zbMATH Keywords

David HumehistoryRichard PriceThomas Bayes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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