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A particular focus of his work was the construction of logical principles for assigning prior probability distributions; see the Principle Of Maximum Entropy , the Principle Of Transformation Groups and Laplace 's Principle Of Indifference .

His last book, ''Probability Theory: The Logic of Science'' gathers various threads of modern thinking about Bayesian Probability and Statistical Inference , and contrasts the advantages of Bayesian techniques with the results of other approaches.


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