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On a Question in Probabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

W.S.B. Woolhouse ,
Cayley  and
T.B. Sprague
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Extract

Mr. Artemas Martin has solicited my opinion in regard to the following problem, the true solutions of which have, he informs me, been much discussed in America. I give, first of all, Mr. Martin's solution, and append thereto my own remarks in regard to the accuracy, or otherwise, of the solution.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , October 1878 , pp. 204 - 213
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1879

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page 211 note * Of course 2 and 3 make together Mr. Woolhouse's Proposition 2 : the point in difference is whether 2 is to he regarded as one at random out of “an infinite number of separate propositions”, or as a proposition which ought to he taken into account.