 | 1803 - 752 pages
...one of thefe will be £ or ^. " Wherefore if we conftitute a fraction, whereof the numerator fball be the number of chances whereby an event may happen, and the denominator the number of chances whereby it may either happen or fail, that fraction will be a proper exponent of the probability... | |
 | 1803 - 752 pages
...of om^f thefe will be £ or f. " Wherefore it we conftiture a fraftion, whereof the numerator (hall be the number of chances whereby an event may happen, and the denominator the number of chances whereby it may either happen or fail, that fra&on will be a proper exponent of the probability... | |
 | Edmond Hoyle - 1835 - 522 pages
...with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator be the number of...denominator the number of all the chances whereby it may happen or fail, that fraction will be the proper designation of the probability of the event. Thus,... | |
 | Edmond Hoyle - 1847 - 522 pages
...with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator be the number of...denominator the number of all the chances whereby it may happen or fail, that fraction will be the proper designation of the probability of the event. Thus,... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - 1864 - 548 pages
...which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator bp the number of chances whereby an event may happen,...denominator the number of all the chances whereby it may happen or fail, that fraction will be the proper designation of the probability of the event. Thus,... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - 1894 - 550 pages
...with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator be the number of...denominator the number of all the chances whereby it may happen or fail, that fraction will be the proper designation of the probability of the event. Thus,... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - 1990 - 396 pages
...with the whole number of Chances by which it may either happen or fail. 2. Wherefore, if we constitute a Fraction whereof the Numerator be the number of...Event may happen and the Denominator the number of all Chances whereby it may either happen or fail, that Fraction will be a proper designation of the Probability... | |
 | Lorraine Daston - 1988 - 456 pages
...approach of Huygens to probability, although Abraham De Moivre's direct estimation of probability as "a Fraction whereof the Numerator be the number of...may happen, and the Denominator the number of all Chances whereby it may happen or fail"71 would have presumably been known to him. Bayes began his posthumous... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 2003 - 676 pages
...between the danger and what is received', rather than about what Abraham De Moivre later defined as 'a Fraction whereof the Numerator be the number of...of all the Chances whereby it may either happen or fail'.1'1 Probabilists since De Moivre have derived expectation from the product of the probability... | |
 | Graham A. Jones - 2005 - 416 pages
...Wherefore, if we constitute a Fraction whereof the Numerator is the number of Chances whereby an Event might happen, and the Denominator the number of all the...either happen or fail, that Fraction will be a proper definition of the Probability of happening (de Moivre, 1718/1967, p. 1) Historically the first authors... | |
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Wherefore, if we constitute a fraction whereof the numerator be the number of chances whereby an event may happen, and the denominator the number of all the chances whereby it may either happen or fail, that fraction will be a proper designation of the... 
