Subject Index

Absolutes

Abstraction

Acts

in trees

Addition

Addition rule

Adversarial approach

Advertising

Agreement

Agricultural experiments

Almanac questions

Alternatives

Alternative medicine

Ambiguity

Analogies

Analysis of variance

Apprenticeship system

Area as probability

Art in the use of the calculus

Assets

Association

Aunt Sally (see straw man)

Babbage

Bankers

Bayes

Bayes Rule

odds form

examples

Bayesian

Belief

Bernoulli series

Betting

Binomial distribution

Bioequivalence

Biology

Birthday problem

Births

Bookmakers

Borel field

Brackets

Breeding

BSE

Calculus of uncertainty

Cancer test

Cardano's method

Cards

Causation

Certain

Chance

distribution

Church of Scotland

Classical form of probability

Closure

Clusters

Coherence

Combination of uncertainties

Common sense

Comparison of consequences

with a standard

Comparative

Compensation in a Bernoulli series

Complementary event

Computers

Computer packages

Conditional probability

Confidence intervals

Conflict

Confounding

Conglomerability

Conjunction of events

Consequences

Consistent

Contingency table

Continuous quantity

Controlled experiment

Convexity rule

Conviction concerning a probability

Crime

Cromwell's rule

Cultures, two

Darwin

Data

that did not arise

Daughters

Davis score

Decimal place

Decision analysis

trees

Defective

De Finetti

De Finetti's result

Denominator

Density

marginal

Dependent quantity

Descriptive

Desirability

Diagnosis

Diminishing returns

Disagreement amongst scientists

Discrete quantity

Disjunction of events

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