Richard Price, the first Bayesian

DOI10.1214/17-STS635zbMath1407.62026MaRDI QIDQ667686

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

history; Richard Price; Thomas Bayes; David Hume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F15: Bayesian inference

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

62-03: History of statistics

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