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3. On the Possibility of combining two or more independent Probabilities of the same Event, so as to form one definite Probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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In this paper the author showed that, a and e being independent probabilities of the same event, the expression a + e—a e, given in the article Probability in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana as the value of their combined force, was erroneous.

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Proceedings 1854-55
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 366 - 368
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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