The emergence of probability : a philosophical study of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference /
Hacking, Ian.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.
An absent family of ideas -- Duality -- Opinion -- Evidence -- Signs -- The first calculations -- The Roannez circle (1654) -- The great decision (1658?) -- The art of thinking (1662) -- Probability and the law (1665) -- Expectation (1657) -- Political arithmetic (1662) -- Annuities (1671) -- Equipossibility (1678) -- Inductive logic -- The art of conjecturing (1692(?) published 1713) -- The first limit theorem -- Design -- Induction (1737).
Probabilities
Induction (Mathematics)
Mathematical statistics