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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

PART I.

16. Bernoulli's Theorem;

17, 18. Its inapplicability to social phenomena.

19. Summation of preceding results.

CHAPTER V.

THE CONCEPTION OF RANDOMNESS.

§ 1. General Indication.

2–5. The postulate of ultimate uniform distribution at one stage or another.

6. This area of distribution must be finite:

7, 8. Geometrical illustrations in support:

9. Can we conceive any exception here?

10, 11. Experimental determination of the random character when the events are many:

12. Corresponding determination when they are few.

13, 14. Illustration from the constant π.

15, 16. Conception of a line drawn at random.

17. Graphical illustration.

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