Thomas Bayes
1702 – 1761
English

Christian minister and mathematician. He pioneered the use of statistical inference, in which the probability of an event occurring is estimated from the number of previous occurrences. Probability estimates, whether informal and subjective or statistical and objective, are an important valuation tool.

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1759–1836Charles Simeon
1671–1713Anthony Shaftesbury
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake