What this chamber argues
- Statistics formalizes inference when evidence is partial or noisy.
- It is the mathematics of uncertainty and decision under risk.
Primary works in this chamber (9)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss — Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies (Theoria Motus) (1857 (English ed.)) — Book
- Pierre-Simon Laplace — A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1814) — Book
- John Venn — The Logic of Chance (1866) — Book
- George Boole — An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) — Book
- Francis Galton — Natural Inheritance (1889) — Book
- Karl Pearson — The Grammar of Science (1892) — Book
- Adolphe Quetelet — A Treatise on Man and the Development of his Faculties (1835) — Book
- Abraham de Moivre — The Doctrine of Chances (1718) — Book
- Pierre-Simon Laplace — Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812) — Book
Connected chambers
- Economics — Inference ↔ markets
- Biology — Inference ↔ populations
- Psychology — Inference ↔ behavior