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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances

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Phil. Trans., 53, 370-418. 1763 CE.

Bayes's paper enunciated Bayes's Theorem for calculating "inverse probabilities”—the basis for methods of extracting patterns from data in decision analysisdata mining, statistical learning machinesBayesian networksBayesian inference. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.

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