What is Probability?

Frontiers Collection

Volumn Part F930, Issue , 2005, Pages 209-238

  Saunders, Simon ^a  

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Author keywords

Born Rule; Classical Statistical Mechanic; Quantum Game; Subjective Expectation; Subjective Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85166060775     PISSN: 16123018     EISSN: 21976619     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26669-0_12     Document Type: Chapter

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