Re: st: Odds ratio

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Historical footnote.
The first book on probability, written by a European, I should add, 
Girolamo Cardano in 1526 dealt with odds.

m.p.

Maarten buis wrote:
> My hypothesis is that that has to do with how we are taught.
> We (in continental Europe at least, I don't know much about
> the Brits other than that they are sometimes odd) are 
> trained to think in terms probabilties and the odds only 
> come in as an afterthought.
>
> -- Maarten
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