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Probability In Science

Probability in Science is a foundational concept in the philosophy of science that denotes the epistemic and ontic role of probabilistic reasoning in scientific theories and inferences, distinguishing it from deterministic models by its reliance on quantified uncertainty to explain, predict, and interpret natural phenomena.

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511

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On the mathematical foundations of theoretical statistics

Ronald Aylmer Fisher · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character · 1922 · 4K citations · Full text

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An Introduction to Probability Theory.

Bert Fristedt, P. A. P. Moran · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1986 · 3.4K citations

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AN ESSAY TOWARDS SOLVING A PROBLEM IN THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES

BAYES · Biometrika · 1958 · 2.9K citations

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Theory of Statistical Estimation

Ronald Aylmer Fisher · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 1925 · 2.9K citations

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IX. On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses

Jerzy Neyman, Egon S. Pearson · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character · 1933 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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  1. AK
    Andrei Khrennikov

    Linnaeus University, Sweden

    7 publications · 211 citations

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  2. RA
    Ronald Aylmer Fisher

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 7.1K citations

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  3. AB
    Alex Biedermann

    University of Lausanne, Switzerland

    5 publications · 149 citations

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  4. JN
    Jerzy Neyman

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    5 publications · 2.5K citations

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  5. IH
    Ian Hacking

    University of Toronto, Canada

    5 publications · 2.3K citations

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Institutions

511

  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    12 h-index

    12 publications

    868 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    14 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    11 publications

    735 citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    11 h-index

    12 publications

    633 citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    2.7K citations

  6. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    679 citations

  7. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    331 citations

  8. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    749 citations

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Venues

  1. Philosophy of Science

    48 publications · 3.3K citations

    32

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  2. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

    32 publications · 2.8K citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 22 publications · 4K citations

    17

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  4. Synthese

    22 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Mind

    13 publications · 935 citations

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