THE approach to probability adopted in this book is conventional, but cautious. The two definitions, the one a priori, based on equally likely aspects of a system, the second a posteriori, based on ...

DR. JEFFREYS implies in his letter in NATURE of September 17 (p. 535) that a prior probability cannot have a frequency interpretation. That there are several usages of the word probability is well ...

Background: Breast cancer risk education enables women make informed decisions regarding their options for screening and risk reduction. We aimed to determine whether patient education regarding ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

The authors propose a formal mathematical measure to assess the versatility (simplicity and adaptability) of parametric frequency and severity distributions before use. They compute and compare the ...