The centenary of Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985)
Eugenio Regazzini, Federico Bassetti · 2008
We gather here two distinct, but complementary, contributions to the understanding of some aspects of de Finetti’s work in probability and mathematical statistics. The former emphasizes the relevance of a few unknown papers concerning: Bayesian statistics, empirical approximation of a probability distribution, geometry of correlation. The latter provides a detailed description of the first complete de Finetti’s contribution to sequences of exchangeable events, and stresses a few issues susceptible of further new developments.