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Book Information
Author(s):
Andrew I. Dale
Title:
Most honorable remembrance: The life and works of Thomas Bayes
Additional book information:
Springer-Verlag,
New York,
2003,
xxiv + 668,
$99.00,
0-387-00499-8
References:
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- Bellhouse, D. R. (2004). The Reverend Thomas Bayes FRS: A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of his Birth, Statistical Science 19, 3-43. MR 2082145
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- Gillies, D. A. (1987). Was Bayes a Bayesian?, Historia Math. 14, 325-346. MR 0919064 (89a:01061)
- 4.
- Hald, Anders (1998). The History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930. Wiley, New York. MR 1619032 (99i:01004)
- 5.
- Holland, J. D (1962). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, F. R. S. (1702 - 1761). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 125, 451 - 461.
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- Reid, Constance (1993). The Search for E. T. Bell. MAA.
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- Stigler, Stephen M. (1986). The History of Statistics. Harvard University Press. MR 0852410 (88a:01004)
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- Winks, Robin, ed. (1969). The Historian as Detective. Harper, New York.
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- Zabell, S. L. (1996). The continuum of inductive methods revisited. In The Cosmos of Science (J. Earman and J. Norton, eds.), Univ. Pittsburgh Press/Univ. Konstanz, pp. 351-385.
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
S.
L.
Zabell
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Email:
zabell@math.northwestern.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
42
(2005),
555-559.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 01A50;
Secondary 01A75
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01068-2
PII:
S 0273-0979(05)01068-2
Posted:
April 7, 2005
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2005,
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.
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