Thomas Bayes

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Thomas Bayes: References & Edit History

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G.A. Barnard, “Thomas Bayes: A Biographical Note,” is followed by Bayes’s “Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances,” in E.S. Pearson and M.G. Kendall (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability: A Series of Papers, vol. 1 (1970, reprinted 1978), pp. 131–153. Stephen M. Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900 (1986), includes information on Bayes’s contributions.

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Anniversary information added.		Apr 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Newcastle University - School of Mathematics, Statisics & Physics - Bayes Theorem for Distributions.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 29, 2024
First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 15, 2024
Anniversary information added.		Jan 01, 2024
Changed “future trials” to “future trials).”	Erik Gregersen	Jun 09, 2023
Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 17, 2017
Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Thomas Bayes.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 26, 2008
Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Sep 27, 2002
Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998