Back in the Renaissance, actually, probability theory was developed to study these games.

早在文艺复兴时期，就已经有研究这些赌博游戏的概率论。

Foxes, needless to say, produce more accurate predictions. A guiding light for Mr Silver is Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century English churchman and pioneer of probability theory.

不用说，狐狸有能力作出更为准确的预测。 18世纪的英国牧师和概率理论先驱汤姆斯-贝叶斯给塞尔维尔先生提供了一些理论基础。

Techniques such as hypothesis testing and confidence intervals rely on probability theory.

假设检验和置信区间等技术依赖于概率论。