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History of probability — Wikipedia (en)

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Probability has a dual aspect: on the one hand the likelihood of hypotheses given the evidence for them, and on the other hand the behavior of stochastic processes such as the throwing of dice or coins. The study of the former is historically older in, for example, the law of evidence, while the mathematical treatment of dice began with the work of Cardano, Pascal, Fermat and Christiaan Huygens between the 16th and 17th century. Probability deals with random experiments with a known distribution, Statistics deals with inference from the data about the unknown distribution.

Tema degli esploratori: matematica e informatica teorica (deposito sistematico; ricerca «probability theory»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «History of probability» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_probability
Wikidata Q3818694: «aspect of history» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3818694
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_probability?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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