The continental controversy over Arbuthnot's argument for divine providence
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The continental controversy over Arbuthnot's argument for divine providence
zbMATH Open document ID: 0633.01004
DOI: 10.1016/0315-0860(87)90017-6
author: Eddie Shoesmith
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The author points out that what was novel in John Arbuthnot's paper in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of 1710 was his attempt to provide a statistical proof of his assertions based on a quantitative concept of chance, with the argument expressed in numerical terms. The effects of Arbuthnot's arguments on 'sGravesande and Niklaus [Nicholas] Bernoulli is described. [An additional relevant reference to the present study would have been: \textit{A. P. Yushkevich}, Nicholas Bernoulli and the publication of Ars Conjectandi by Jacob Bernoulli, Theory Probab. Appl. 31, 286-303 (1987; Zbl 0616.01008), translation from Teor. Veroyatn. Primen. 31, No.2, 333-352 (1986; Zbl 0599.01007).]
reviewed by: Eugene Seneta
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62-03
zbMATH DE Number: 4029493
zbMATH Keywords: statistical logic
zbMATH Keywords: statistical model
zbMATH Keywords: chance
zbMATH Keywords: binomial model
zbMATH Keywords: Niklaus Bernoulli
zbMATH Keywords: 'sGravesande
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0315-0860(87)90017-6
OpenAlex ID: W2033557215
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4029493