The statistical education of Harold Jeffreys

Aldrich, John (2003) The statistical education of Harold Jeffreys. Southampton, UK, University of Southampton, 51pp. (Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 0309)

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The paper considers the statistical work of the applied mathematician Harold Jeffreys. In 1933-4 Jeffreys had a controversy with R. A. Fisher, the leading statistician of the time. Before this encounter Jeffreys had been developing probability as the basis for scientific inference and using the theory of errors to astronomy and seismology; he was also starting to rework the theory of errors. After the encounter came the Theory of Probability, a full-scale treatment of Bayesian statistics.

Item Type:Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Related URLs:http://www.southampton.ac.uk/s...?Year=2003
Subjects:H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Divisions:University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Economics
ePrint ID:33497
URI:http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33497
Deposited On:18 May 2006
Last Modified:02 Mar 2012 11:27

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