INDEX

  • Adams, John
  • Additive property
  • Adolphe Quetelet
  • Aleatory contracts
  • Annuities
  • Arbuthnot, John
  • Arnaud, Antoine
  • Aspirin
  • Astralagi
  • Babbage, Charles
  • Balzac, Honoré de
  • Bauhuis, Bernard
  • Bayes, Thomas
    • essay
    • postulate
    • scholium
  • Bayes's Theorem
  • Behavioral economics
  • Belief functions
  • Bernoulli, Jacob
    • Ars Conjectandi
    • axioms of prudent behavior
    • correspondence with G. Leibniz
    • eulogies
    • Golden Theorem
    • metaphorical lottery
    • mixed argument
    • pure argument
  • Bernoulli, Johann
  • Bernoulli, Nicholas
  • Bias
  • Big Data
  • Bills of Mortality
  • Biometrika
  • Bonaparte, Napoléon
  • Boole, George
    • Investigation of the Laws of Thought
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, v
  • Broad, C. D.
  • Browne, William
  • Butler, Joseph
  • Caesar, Julius
  • Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan
  • Carcavi, Pierre
  • Cardano, Gerolamo
    • De Ludo Aleae
    • general rule of wagering
    • Scaliger fiasco
  • Cassini, Giovanni
  • Central Limit Theorem
  • Chess
  • Cheyne, George
  • Clinical trial
  • Colson, John
  • Combinatorics
  • Collective
  • Conditional probability
  • Condorcet, Marquis de
  • Confidence interval
  • Confounding
  • Conjunction fallacy
  • Continental Congress
  • Cournot, Antoine Augustin
  • Craig, John
  • Cramer, Gabriel
  • Cromwell, Oliver
  • D'Alembert, Jean le Rond
  • Damasio, Antonio
  • somatic markers
  • Darwin, Charles
  • Daston, Lorraine
  • De Bessy, Bernard Frenicle
  • De Finetti, Bruno
    • exchangeability
    • Bayesian statistics
  • De Medina, Bartolomé
  • De Moivre, Abraham
    • De Mensura Sortis
    • Annuities upon Lives
    • The Doctrine of Chances
  • De Morgan, Augustus
  • De Witt, Johann
  • Decision theory
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Decline effect ...

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