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LaTeX source for review of Dale's book\documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \renewcommand{\Pr}{\mbox{$\mathsf P$}} % Set up for reference list \newcommand{\hi}{\par\noindent\hangindent=1em} \begin{document} % \noindent % \textit{N.B. A gif of the cover can be found at} % \noindent % \texttt{http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-102-22-7109641-0,00.html} % \bigskip\bigskip \noindent {\Large\textbf{Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes}} \bigskip \noindent \textit{Andrew I Dale, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,, etc., xxiii+698 pp.; 2003; \pounds84.50; ISBN 0387004998} \medskip \noindent \noindent Most beginners no doubt believe that Bayes' Theorem was proved by Thomas Bayes. In fact his most famous paper considered the following problem, ``\textit{Given} the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed: \textit{Required} the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named.'' He assumes \textit{a priori} that all values of the unknown probability $\theta$ are equally likely and concludes (in modern notation) that, conditional on the observation of $X=p$ successes in $n$ trials, \[ \Pr(b<\theta