The True Title of Bayes's Essay
Methodology
2013-10-02 v1
Abstract
New evidence is presented that Richard Price gave Thomas Bayes's famous essay a very different title from the commonly reported one. It is argued that this implies Price almost surely and Bayes not improbably embarked upon this work seeking a defensive tool to combat David Hume on an issue in theology.
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@article{arxiv.1310.0173,
title = {The True Title of Bayes's Essay},
author = {Stephen M. Stigler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0173},
year = {2013}
}
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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-STS438 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)