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Descriptor English: Probability Theory
Descriptor Spanish: Teoría de la Probabilidad
Descriptor teoría de la probabilidad
Scope note: Rama de las matemáticas que trata de las propiedades puramente lógicas de la probabilidad. Sus teoremas subyacen en la mayoría de los métodos estadísticos. (Traducción libre del original: Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Teoria da Probabilidade
Descriptor French: Théorie des probabilités
Entry term(s): Probability Theories
Theories, Probability
Theory, Probability
Tree number(s): L01.906.394.622
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011338
Scope note: The branch of mathematics dealing with the purely logical properties of probability. Its theorems underlie most statistical methods. (Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under OPERATIONS RESEARCH 1975-90
Online Note: search OPERATIONS RESEARCH 1966-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under OPERATIONS RESEARCH 1975-90
DeCS ID: 11773
Unique ID: D011338
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/07/03
Probability Theory - Preferred
Concept UI M0017600
Scope note The branch of mathematics dealing with the purely logical properties of probability. Its theorems underlie most statistical methods. (Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Preferred term Probability Theory
Entry term(s) Probability Theories
Theories, Probability
Theory, Probability



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