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_TRANSLATED FROM THE SIXTH FRENCH EDITION_ BY
FREDERICK WILSON TRUSCOTT, PH.D. (HARV.), _Professor of Germanic Languages in the West Virginia University_,
FREDERICK LINCOLN EMORY, M.E. (WOR. POLY. INST.), _Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics in the West Virginia University; Mem. Amer. Soc. Mech. Eng._
NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY & SONS. LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED. 1902.
Copyright, 1902, BY F. W. TRUSCOTT AND F. L. EMORY.
PAGE PART I. _A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES._
CHAPTER III. General Principles of the Calculus of Probabilities 11
CHAPTER V. Analytical Methods of the Calculus of Probabilities 26
PART II. _APPLICATION OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES._
CHAPTER VII. Concerning the Unknown Inequalities which may Exist among Chances Supposed to be Equal 56
CHAPTER VIII. Concerning the Laws of Probability which result from the Indefinite Multiplication of Events 60
CHAPTER IX. Application of the Calculus of Probabilities to Natural Philosophy 73
CHAPTER X. Application of the Calculus of Probabilities to the Moral Sciences 107
CHAPTER XI. Concerning the Probability of Testimonies 109
CHAPTER XII. Concerning the Selections and Decisions of Assemblies 126
CHAPTER XIII. Concerning the Probability of the Judgments of Tribunals 132
CHAPTER XIV. Concerning Tables of Mortality, and the Mean Durations of Life, Marriage, and Some Associations 140
CHAPTER XV. Concerning the Benefits of Institutions which Depend upon the Probability of Events 149
CHAPTER XVI. Concerning Illusions in the Estimation of Probabilities 160
CHAPTER XVII. Concerning the Various Means of Approaching Certainty 176
CHAPTER XVIII. Historical Notice of the Calculus of Probabilities to 1816 185