Probability, Induction and Statistics
By Bruno de Finetti.
Description
Introduction CONCEPTUAL OUTLINE OF THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS A few introductory words may serve to guide the reader through the diverse topics of these collected papers. In a manner of speaking, there is only one topic: the role of probability-interpreted always as subjective probability-in thinking and acting. The assessing of probabilities, as expressions of subjective feeling, and reasoning with probabilities, obeying objectively necessary conditions of coherency, constitute the logic of uncertainty; they are the general tools of our minds along with formal logic, which is concern...
ISBN(s)
0471201405, 9780471201403