The statistical education of Harold Jeffreys
The statistical education of Harold Jeffreys
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.
University of Southampton
Aldrich, John
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2003
Aldrich, John
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Aldrich, John
(2003)
The statistical education of Harold Jeffreys
(Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 309)
Southampton, UK.
University of Southampton
51pp.
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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.
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Published date: 2003
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