CHAPTER XIX.Transcriber's Note

INDEX.

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]
Likely, equally [77], [183]
Limit
- conception of [18], [109], [164]
- of possible fluctuation [32]
Lines, random [113]
Lister's method [187]
Lotteries [128]
Lunn, J. R. [248]

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]
Prevost [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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