2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
On the Probability of Results Deduced by Methods of any Kind from a Large Number of Observations
verfasst von : P. S. Laplace
Erschienen in: Annotated Readings in the History of Statistics
Verlag: Springer New York
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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The preceding methods reduce to multiplication of each equation of condition by a factor, and addition of all the products in order to form a final equation. But we can employ other considerations to obtain the desired result. For example, we can choose that equation of condition approaching most closely to the truth. The procedure I have given in Section 40 of Mécanique céleste is of this kind.