Abstract
COMMENTING on Dr. Neyman's remarks in a recent review of Pearson's “Grammar of Science”, Dr. Harold Jeffreys states that the law of errors is a description of a distribution of chance, not of observational facts. It does not hold for all possible errors, even if the conditions postulated in the proof are satisfied. He also points out that the principle of'inverse probability' was stated long before any 'frequency' definition.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 142, 540 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142540c0
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142540c0
This article is cited by
-
Marine Turtles as Current Indicators
Nature (1939)