The logic of chance [Elektronisk resurs] : an essay on the foundations and province of the theory of probability, with especial reference to its logical bearings and its application to moral and social science, and to statistics / by John Venn.

• "Any work on Probability by a Cambridge man will be so likely to have its scope and its general treatment of the subject prejudged, that it may be well to state at the outset that the following Essay is in no sense mathematical. Not only, to quote a common but often delusive assurance, will 'no knowledge of mathematics beyond the simple rules of Arithmetic' be required to understand these pages, but it is not intended that any such knowledge should be acquired by the process of reading them. Of the two or three occasions on which algebraical formulae occur they will not be found to form any essential part of the text. The science of Probability occupies at present a somewhat anomalous position. It is impossible, I think, not to observe in it some of the marks and consequent disadvantages of a sectional study. By a small body of ardent students it has been cultivated with great assiduity, and the results they have obtained will always be reckoned among the most extraordinary products of mathematical genius"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). 

Ämnesord

Chance.  (LCSH)

Probabilities.  (LCSH)

Science  -- Methodology. (LCSH)

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.  (LCSH)

Probability  (MeSH)

Science  -- methods (MeSH)

Logic  (MeSH)

Klassifikation

BC141 (LCC)