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nydus/The Logic of Chance, 3rd EditionPublic

This work examines the physical foundations of probability by analyzing the formation and behavior of statistical series. It explores the nature of laws of error, the processes of causation, and the empirical methods required to establish and prove probabilistic data.

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Table of Contents

THE THEORY OF THE AVERAGE AS A MEANS OF APPROXIMATION TO THE TRUTH.

INDEX.

  • Accidents 342
  • Airy, G. B. 447, 484
  • Anticipations, tacit 287
  • Arbuthnott 258
  • Aristotle 205, 307
  • Average arithmetical 437 geometrical 439 median 442 consequences of 482 necessary results of 457 uses of 439, 489
  • Babbage 343
  • Bags and balls 180, 411
  • Belief correctness of 125, 131, 178 gradations of 139 growth of 199 language of 143 measurement of 119, 125, 146 quantity of 133 test of 140, 149, 294 undue 129 vagueness of 127
  • Bentham 319, 323
  • Bernoulli 91, 117, 389
  • Bertillon 435
  • Births, male and female 90, 258, 263
  • Boat race, Oxford and Cambridge 339
  • Boole 183
  • Buckle 237
  • Buffon 153, 205, 352, 389
  • Burgersdyck 311
  • Butler 209, 281, 333, 366
  • Carlisle Tables 169
  • Casual, meaning of 245
  • Causation need of 237 proof of 244
  • Centre of gravity 467
  • Certainty, in Law 324 reasonable 327 hypothetical 210
  • Chance and Causation 244**** Creation 258 Design 256 Genius 353 neglect of small 363 selections 338
  • Chauvenet 352
  • Classification, numerical scheme of 48
  • Coincidences 245
  • Combinations and Permutations 87
  • Communism 375, 392
  • Conceptualism 275
  • Conflict of chances 418
  • Consumptives, insurance of 227
  • Cournot 245, 255, 338
  • Crackanthorpe 312, 320
  • Craig, J. 192
  • Crofton, M. W. 61, 101, 104
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