Comment: The Importance of Jeffreys’s Legacy
Robert Kass
Source: Statist. Sci. Volume 24, Number 2
(2009), 179-182.
Abstract
Theory of Probability is distinguished by several high-level philosophical attitudes, some stressed by Jeffreys, some implicit. By reviewing these we may recognize the importance in this work in the historical development of statistics.
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