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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Web edition: May 20, 2011
Print edition: June 4, 2011; Vol.179 #12 (p. 30)
The history of Bayes’ theorem and its controversial role in science’s use of statistics.
Yale Univ. Press, 2011, 336 p., $27.50.
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