Thesis
Probability, frequency and evidence
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Chapter I of this thesis considers the frequency theory of probability and in particular its treatmant of individual events. Attempts by frequentists to give an account of ordinary statements of probability which are generally about individual events are criticized at length: Reichenbach's attempts to deal with the problem of individual events is found to be unsatisfactory in virtue of his introduction of such dubious entities a 'fictitious probabilities'; Salmon's related suggestion to t...
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- 1976
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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- Copyright holder:
- Frederick C. Benenson
- Copyright date:
- 1976
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- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky.
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