The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submari...
The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submari...
The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, & emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
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New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
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N519.542/6
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English
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xiii, 320 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Enlightenment and the anti-Bayesian reaction. Causes in the air ; The man who did everything ; Many doubts, few defenders -- Second World War era. Bayes goes to war ; Dead and buried again -- The glorious revival. Arthur Bailey ; From tool to theology ; Jerome Cornfield, lung cancer, and heart attac...
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New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
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Connecticut
Date Published
c2011.
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- SCIENCE / History
- MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy
- Methode van Bayes
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"Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sh...
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The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, & emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-306) and index.
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c2011.
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N519.542/6
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0300169698 (hardback)
9780300169690 (hardback)
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519.542
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991007420419702626
