Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn

DOI10.1080/17498430.2014.889269zbMath1305.01035OpenAlexW2128731708WikidataQ58595238 ScholiaQ58595238MaRDI QIDQ2935401

Lukas M. Verburgt

Publication date: 29 December 2014

Published in: BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2014.889269

zbMATH Keywords

probability theoryrelative frequency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of probability theory (60-03)

Related Items (4)

Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy of science and the foundations of probability theory ⋮ The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory ⋮ John Venn's Hypothetical Infinite Frequentism and Logic ⋮ W.E. Johnson and Cambridge thought on probability

Cites Work

• Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy of science and the foundations of probability theory
• A history of parametric statistical inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713--1935
• The significance of Jacob Bernoulli's \textit{Ars Conjectandi} for the philosophy of probability today
• How probabilities came to be objective and subjective
• Jacques Bernoulli's Art of Conjecturing
• Causation, randomness, and pseudo-randomness in John Venn'slogic of chance

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