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Rev. Thomas Bayes, 1702-1761.

English Presbyterian minister and uncertainty theorist.

Bayes's fame rests entirely on his posthumously published 1763 paper (discovered by his executor Dr. Richard Price) which introduced "Bayes' theorem" and the concept of Bayesian updating. As a result, Bayes can be credited with the introduction of subjective probability theory as well as the theory of information.

 

  

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Major Works of Thomas Bayes

  • "An Essay Toward Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances", 1763, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 53, p.370-418  [ps]

 
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