Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet

Popular Instructions on the Calculation of Probabilities

To Which Are Appended Notes by Richard Beamish
Herausgeber: Beamish, Richard / Übersetzer: Beamish, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

The 1839 English translation of an 1828 work on probability by Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874), pioneer of social statistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 235g
• ISBN-13: 9781108064439
• ISBN-10: 1108064434
• Artikelnr.: 39537014

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's preface
Author's preface
Signs employed in this work
1. Certainty and probability
2. Mathematical probability
3. Simple and compound probabilities
4. Relative probabilities
5. Repeated trials
6. Particular cases of the calculation of mathematical probabilities
7. Manner of examining probabilities
8. Mathematical expectation
9. Moral expectation
10. Lotteries
11. Calculation of probabilities when the number of favourable chances are not known
12. Calculation of probabilities when the number of chances is unknown
13. The mode of taking mean results
14. The measure of the degree of approximation of a mean result
15. Application of the calculation of probabilities to human life
16. Assurances and life annuities
17. Probabilities of witnesses
18. Decisions of tribunals and elections
19. Conclusion
Notes.