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Probability

The Doctrine of Chances

Author: Abraham de Moivre

Publication data: 1738 (2nd ed.)

Online version: ?

Description: The book introduced the concept of normal distributions as approximations to binomial distributions. In effect, de Moivre proved a weak version of the central limit theorem. Sometimes his result is called the theorem of de Moivre-Laplace.

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Bayesian statistics

Author: Thomas Bayes

Publication data: 1764

Online version: [1] (PostScript file); [1] (PDF file)

Description: In this paper Bayes addresses the problem of using a sequence of identical "trials" to determine the per-trial probability of "success" — the so-called inverse probability problem. It later inspired the theorem that bears his name (Bayes' theorem). See also Pierre Simon de Laplace.

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Applied statistics

Analysis of variance

Extreme value theory

Regression analysis

Machine learning

Multivariate statistics

Statistical phenomena

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