The Chance-Plus-Order Series
J. N. Shearman · 2019
The theory of chance is most easily explained by starting from a series in which have a definite known number of chances and in which all these chances are equally probable, that is to say, will all tend to occur an equal number of times in the long run. The properties of the series depend both on its chance and on its order, and especially on the way in which its order limits its chance. The principle relied on to bring out the nature of the results is that the equal chances will tend on the whole and in the long run to occur an equal number of times. The sort of thing that may be expected to happen as any chance-with-order series is worked out must depend on what we may call the law of the series, that is to say, the amount and nature of the order which is included in it.