The Theory That Would Not Die
Subtitle: how Bayes' rule cracked the Enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300169690
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Enlightenment and the anti-Bayesian reaction.; title: Causes in the air; title: The man who did everything; title: Many doubts, few defenders; title: Part 2 : Second World War era.; title: Bayes goes to war; title: Dead and buried again; title: Part 3 : The glorious revival.; title: Arthur Bailey; title: From tool to theology; title: Jerome Cornfield, lung cancer, and heart attacks; title: There's always a first time; title: 46,656 varieties; title: Part 4 : To prove its worth.; title: Business decisions; title: Who wrote The Federalist?; title: The cold warrior; title: Three Mile Island; title: The Navy searches; title: Part 5 : Victory.; title: Eureka!; title: Rosetta stones; title: Appendixes.; title: Dr. Fisher's casebook; title: Applying Baye's Rule to mammograms and breast cancer