 | 1814 - Страниц: 606
...case, simple indeed, but important in its. application. Suppose a fact to be transmitted through 20 persons }. — the first communicating it to the second,...the probability of each testimony be expressed by V^, (that is, suppose that of 10 reports made by each witness, 9 only are true), then at every time... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - Страниц: 636
...a Scotchman * ; but it appears to have been adopted by Laplace, who thus reasons in its support. " Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons — the first communicating it to the second, and the second to the third, &c, and let the probability of each testimony be expressed by -f^, (that... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - Страниц: 554
...second, the second to the third, &c. ; and let the probability of each testimony be expressed by ~^, (that is, suppose that of ten reports made by each...one witness to another, the evidence is reduced to -^ of what it was before. — Thus, after it has passed the whole twenty, the evidence will be found... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - Страниц: 550
...considerabledifficulty. Laplace mentions one case, simple indeed, but important in its application. Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons...the probability of each testimony be expressed by ^j, (that is, suppose that of ten reports made by each witness, nine only are true,) then at every... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - Страниц: 552
...considerable difficulty. Laplace mentions one case, simple indeed, but important in its application. Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons...the probability of each testimony be expressed by ^, (that is, suppose that of ten reports made by each witness, nine only are true,) then at every time... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - Страниц: 552
...indeed, but important in its application. Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons;—the first communicating it to the second, the second to...the probability of each testimony be expressed by ^, (that is, suppose that of ten reports made by each witness, nine only are true,) then at every time... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - Страниц: 596
...three-fourths of the news published,') they profess to refer to the authority of certain priv .•, ..... '"Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty...reduced to nine-tenths of what it was before. Thus alter it has passed through Uie vat;: correspondent!! abroad ; who these correspondents are, what means... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - Страниц: 600
...vj - 1 *•• *.*•>. j, rM. *:r'»'j'M:ii:-j ->if* *»n; ^?'»r-?. **f>i^ )j..Sw Ail V. •' ' ' "Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons...be expressed by nine-tenths, (that is, suppose that «f ten reports made by each -witness, nine only are true,) then, at every time the story passes from... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 1138
...than three-fourths of the news published,1) they profess to refer to the authority of certain pri"' Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons;...to the second, the second to the third, &c. and let I he probability of each testimony be expressed by nine-tenths, (that is, suppose that of ten reports... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1827 - Страниц: 62
...what means they have of obtaining informc " Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty per" sons; the first communicating it to the second, the second "' to the third, &e. and let the probability of each testimony " be expressed by nine-tenths, (that is, suppose that... | |
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Suppose a fact to be transmitted through twenty persons ; the first communicating it to the second, the second to the third, &c. and let the probability of each testimony be expressed by nine-tenths... 
