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Theory of Probability
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Theory of Probability

by Bruno de Finetti
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
25h 37m
English
Wiley
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Index

  • a
  • absolute certainty
  • absolutely continuous distributions
  • accidental irregularities
  • accuracy
  • additive functions
  • additivity
    • countable
      • continuity
    • infinite partitions
  • adherent probabilities
  • adhockeries
  • affine space
  • agglutinated probabilities
  • aggregate effect
  • alternative hypothesis
  • antihypothesis
  • antithesis
  • approximate measurements
  • arbitrary subsets
  • arc sine distribution
  • arithmetic mean
  • arithmetic sum
  • Ascoli's theorem
  • asserted propositions
  • assertion
  • associative means
  • asymmetry
  • asymptotic certainty
  • asymptotic normality
  • asymptotic results
  • autocorrelation function
  • average density
  • average gain
  • axioms
    • first
    • interpretations
    • second
    • third
  • b
  • Ballot problems
  • barycentre
  • Bayesian approach to estimation and hypothesis testing
  • Bayes–Laplace scheme
  • Bayes's theorem
  • Bernoulli distribution
  • Bernoulli processes
  • Bernoulli scheme
  • Bessel distribution
  • beta distribution
  • bets
  • bimodal distributions
  • binomial distribution
    • standardized
  • bit (binary digit)
  • Bittering's apparatus
  • Boolean algebra
  • Boolean operations
  • Boolean ring
  • Borel measure
  • Borel–Cantelli lemmas
  • Bose–Einstein statistics
  • bounded random values
  • bounded values
  • bounded variance
  • boundedness
  • Brownian motion process
  • c
  • calculus of probability
  • Cantelli's inequality
  • Cardinal Newman's principle
  • Cauchy convergence
  • Cauchy distribution
  • centiles
  • central limit theorem
    • hyperspace interpretation
    • proof
  • certainty
    • absolute certainty
  • Cesàro sum
  • chance, definition
  • chaos, order from
  • characteristic functions method
    • central limit theorem proof
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