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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

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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.

Metadaten
Titel
On the Probability of Results Deduced by Methods of any Kind from a Large Number of Observations
verfasst von
P. S. Laplace
Copyright-Jahr
2001
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3500-0_10