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Theory of probability   /θˈɪri əv prˌɑbəbˈɪləti/   Listen
Theory of probability

noun
1.
The branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities.  Synonym: probability theory.





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"Theory of probability" Quotes from Famous Books



... are few; for that Method involves a tacit supposition, that the same effect in different instances, which have one common antecedent, must follow in all from the same cause, viz. from their common antecedent. When the instances are varied and very many (how many, it is for the Theory of Probability to consider), the supposition, that the presence in all of the common antecedent may be simply a coincidence, is rebutted; and this is the sole reason why mere number of instances, differing only in immaterial points, is of any value. ...
— Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic • William Stebbing
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