The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Classical probabilities, 1660-1840 2. Statistical probabilities, 1820-1900 3. The inference experts 4. Chance and life: controversies in modern biology 5. The probabilistic revolution in physics 6. Statistics of the mind 7. Numbers rule the world 8. The implications of chance References Name index Subject index.
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Classical probabilities, 1660-1840 2. Statistical probabilities, 1820-1900 3. The inference experts 4. Chance and life: controversies in modern biology 5. The probabilistic revolution in physics 6. Statistics of the mind 7. Numbers rule the world 8. The implications of chance References Name index Subject index.
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