Max Planck and the Foundations of Statistics

October 30, 2013

(This article was originally published at Entsophy, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

Statistics is full of old and difficult ideas. It’s time for something new and simple. Well, it’s not actually new, but it will seem that way to most. The story begins with the physicist Max Planck over a century ago. Planck’s 1912 summary of his researches on Black Body Radiation included a chapter titled “Probability […]