What is probability

2003

92 citations recorded by the source corpus.

What is probability? What does it mean to say that the probability of an event is 75%? Is this the frequency with which the event happens? Is it the degree to which we should believe it will happen or has happened? Is it the degree to which some particular person believes it will happen? These questions have been debated for several hundred years. Anyone who teaches statistics should have some sense of how this debate has gone and some respect for the different viewpoints that have been expressed. Each seems to have its germ of truth.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6be14d6b1055d14737d2897f939928f28431a09a

Citations in the corpus

• Bayes in the sky: Bayesian inference and model selection in cosmology (2008, background): “For an introduction and further reading, see e.g. [ 24 ,25] and references therein.”