The Statistical Education of Harold Jeffreys

DOI10.1111/J.1751-5823.2005.TB00150.XzbMath1296.62011OpenAlexW2064348014MaRDI QIDQ3421333

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Publication date: 12 February 2007

Published in: International Statistical Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/33497/1/0309.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian inferencefiducial argumentcontroversy with R. A. Fisher

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03)

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