An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are founded the mathematical theories of logic and probabilities

By G. Boole. 2007

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Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models (2015, methodology): “A popular way to conduct multiple inferences while controlling the overall error rate is based on a simple inequality shown by the British mathematician George Boole (1854), in an impressive treatise of which several chapters presented laws of probability.”
Logical Induction (2016, background): “It can be traced all the way back to Bernoulli, who laid the foundations of statistics, and later Boole (1854), who was interested in the unification of logic with probability from the start.”
The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States (2016, methodology): “To do this, we use the Boole-Fréchet inequalities (Boole 1854), which imply that max{vii + vkk− 1,0} ≤ vik ≤min{vii, vkk}; where vii, vkk are the marginal probabilities of exposures i and k.”
Memristors for Energy‐Efficient New Computing Paradigms (2016, background): “[ 44 ] In Boolean algebra, only two values exist for the variables, 1 or 0 (i.e., true or false).”
Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web (2008, background): “Its roots can be traced back to Boole in 1854 [11].”