Szafarz, Ariane; De Scheemaekere, Xavier - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
Bernoulli’s (1713) well-known Law of Large Numbers (LLN) establishes a legitimate one-way transition from mathematical … probability to observed frequency. However, Bernoulli went one step further and abusively introduced the inverse proposition …. Based on a careful analysis of Bernoulli’s original proof, this paper identifies this appealing, but illegitimate, inversion …