The statistical education of Harold Jeffreys

The paper considers the statistical work of the physicist Harold Jeffreys. In 1933-4 Jeffreys had a controversy with R.A. Fisher, the leading statistician of the time. Prior to the encounter, Jeffreys had worked on probability as the basis for scientific inference and had used methods from the theor...

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Main Author: Aldrich, John (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2005-12-01.
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