Symmetry and its Discontents
Subtitle: Essays on the History of Inductive Probability (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521444705
Subjects: Logic; Prediction (Logic); Induction (Logic); Philosophy; Probabilities; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General; General; History; Inference
First sentence: Let X1, X2, X3, . . . be an infinite sequence of 0,1-valued random variables, which may be thought of as recording when an event occurs in a sequence of repeated trials (e.g., tossing a coin, with 1 if heads, 0 if tails).