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- From: charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer)
- Subject: Re: Philosophical Foundations of Probability?
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- In article <1bk8jfINNk1m@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
- writes:
-
- > I really liked Gigerenzer et al. (six coauthors) _The Empire
- > of Chance_. This is a collaborative philosophical history whose
- > coauthors spent years working together--yet it is quite readable.
-
- I'll second the recommendation. It's a very good book, understandable
- but touching on many deep issues.
-
- The authors spent *a* year all visiting at the same university (of course
- all six share the same research area -- history of probability and
- statistics). To defend the authors against the charge of readability :-)
- they also did a six-volume work that is more "academic". Also three or four
- have written books of their own on the subject.
-
- --
- Charles Geyer
- School of Statistics
- University of Minnesota
- charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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