Accidents 342
Airy, G. B. 447, 484
Anticipations, tacit 287
Arbuthnott 258
Aristotle 205, 307
Average arithmetical 437 geometrical 439 median 442 consequences of 482 necessary results of 457 uses of 439, 489
Babbage 343
Bags and balls 180, 411
Belief correctness of 125, 131, 178 gradations of 139 growth of 199 language of 143 measurement of 119, 125, 146 quantity of 133 test of 140, 149, 294 undue 129 vagueness of 127
Bentham 319, 323
Bernoulli 91, 117, 389
Bertillon 435
Births, male and female 90, 258, 263
Boat race, Oxford and Cambridge 339
Boole 183
Buckle 237
Buffon 153, 205, 352, 389
Burgersdyck 311
Butler 209, 281, 333, 366
Carlisle Tables 169
Casual, meaning of 245
Causation need of 237 proof of 244
Centre of gravity 467
Certainty, in Law 324 reasonable 327 hypothetical 210
Chance and Causation 244 Creation 258 Design 256 Genius 353 neglect of small 363 selections 338
Chauvenet 352
Classification, numerical scheme of 48
Coincidences 245
Combinations and Permutations 87
Communism 375, 392
Conceptualism 275
Conflict of chances 418
Consumptives, insurance of 227
Cournot 245, 255, 338
Crackanthorpe 312, 320
Craig, J. 192
Crofton, M. W. 61, 101, 104
Dante 285
Deflection causes of 57 from aim 38
De Morgan 83, 106, 119, 122, 135, 177, 179, 197, 236, 247, 296, 308, 350, 379, 382, 483
De Ros trial 255
Digits, random 111, 114
Discontinuity 116
Distribution, random 106
Diagrams 29, 45, 118, 443, 476, 481, 493, 501
Dialectic 302, 320
Donkin 123, 188, 283
Duration of life 15, 441
Düsing 259
Ebbinghaus 199
Edgeworth, F. Y. 34, 119, 256, 339, 393, 435, 483
Ellis, L. 9
Epidemics 62
Error, law of 29 asymmetrical 34, 441, 443 binomial 37, 457, 469, 480 geometrical 34, 502 heterogeneous 45 production of 36
Error mean 446 probable 446, 472, 488 of mean square 447, 488
Escapes, narrow 341
Expectation, moral 388
Experience and probability 74
Exponential curve 29
Extraordinary sense of 159, 423 stories 407, 421
Fallacies in Logic and Probability 367
Fatalism 243
Fechner 34, 389, 435, 441
Fluctuation 448 unlimited 73
Forbes, J. D. 188, 262
Formal Logic 123
Formal and Material treatment 86
Free will 240
Galloway 248, 448, 484
Galton, F. 33, 50, 70, 318, 442, 451, 473, 502
Gambling and Insurance 370 disadvantage of 384 final results of 385, 391
Godfray, H. 99
Grote, G. 307
Guy 6
Hamilton, W. 266, 297
Happiness, human 382
Heads and Tails 77
Heredity 50, 357
Herschel 30, 466
Houdin 361
Hume 236, 419, 433
Hypotheses 268
Immediate inferences 121
Independent events 175, 246
Induction and Probability 194, 201, 208, 233, 358 difficulty of 213 pure 200
Inequality of wealth 382
Inference, rules of 167
Inoculation 374
Insurance justification of 149 difficulties of 221 life 151 peculiar case 224 theory of 372 varieties of 374
Inverse probability 179, 196, 249
Irregularity, absolute and relative 6
Jacobs, J. 199
Jackson, J. G. 253
Jevons 37, 83, 136, 198, 201, 209, 247
Kant 310, 317
Keckermann 298, 316
Kinds, natural 55
Krug 324
Lambert 309
Language of Chance 159
Laplace 89, 120, 197, 237, 424
Law absence of 101 empirical 160 of causation 206
Least squares 41, 467
Leibnitz 309, 320
Letters lost 162, 368 misdirected 67, 237, 241
Lexis, W. 263, 441
Limit conception of 18, 109, 164 of possible fluctuation 32
Lines, random 113
Lister's method 187
Lotteries 128
Lunn, J. R. 248
Likely, equally 77, 183
McAlister, D. 34, 187, 502
Mansel, H. L. 299, 301, 320
Martingale 343
Material and Formal Logic 265
Maximum ordinate 441, 455
Measurement of Belief 119 Memory 192
Mental qualities, measurement of 49
Merriman, M. 352, 448, 460, 465
Mill, J. S. 131, 207, 266, 282, 402
Milton, chance production of 353
Miracles 428
Michell, J. 260
Modality 295 divisions of 307 false 297 formal 298 in Law 319
Modulus 464, 472, 484
Monro, C. J. 325, 416
Names, reference of 270
Nations, comparison of 51
Natural Kinds 55, 63, 71
Necessary and impossible matter 310
Objects and agencies 53
Occam 314
Paley 433
Penny, tosses of 144
Petrie, F. 498
Petersburg Problem 19, 154
Poisson 405
Prantl 311
Presumption, legal 329
Prévost 348
Probability definition of 165 relative 290 integral 463
Probable facts 269 value 441 error 446, 472
Problem, Three point 104
Proctor, R. A. 262, 378
Prophecies, suicidal 226
Providence 89, 431
Propositions, proportional 2
Psychical research 256
Pyramid, the great 251
π, digits in 111, 247
Quartiles 446
Quetelet 23, 30, 43, 91, 259, 330, 348, 454
Randomness etymology of 96 in firing 98 proof of 107
Rare events 349
Realism 92
Reason, sufficient 82
Residuals 460
Roberts, C. 25
Rod broken at random 98 thrown at random 103
Rules Inductive and Deductive 176 of Succession 191 conflict of 222 plurality of 217
Series definite proportions in 11 fixed and variable 16 ideal 95 peculiar 12
Shanks 248
Skeat, W. W. 96
Smiglecius 306, 316
Smyth, P. 251
Socialism 392
Spiritualism 365
Stars, random arrangement of 108, 260
Statistics by Intercomparison 473 unconscious appeal to 400
Statistical Journal 6
Stature human 25, 471 French and English 44
Stephen, J. F. 282, 323, 326
Stewart, D. 209, 237
Subjective and objective terms 160
Succession long 360 Rule of 190, 362
Suffield, G. 248
Suicides 67, 237
Surnames, extinction of 387
Surprise, emotion of 157
Syllogisms, pure and modal 316
Taylor 329
Testimony single 411 combined 426 two kinds of 409 worthless 416
Thomson, W. 153, 314, 419
Time influence of 191 in Probability 279
Todhunter 415
Tontines 380
Triangle, random 103
Tucker, A. 127
Types existence of 42, 60, 453 fixed and fluctuating 64, 93
Ueberweg 311
Uncertainty in life 370
Uniformity 240
Units of calculation 464
Voluntary agency 65, 68, 85
Watford 374
Wallis, J. 312
Watson, H. W. 387
Whately 297, 307
Whist 401
Whitworth, W. A. 87, 183, 384
Wilson, J. M. 104
Witnesses, independent 405
Wolf 309
Woolhouse 101
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