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Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses' by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson

Reference number: RR/46/42

Date: 05 October 1932

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests returning the manuscript to the authors to produce a cleaned version for the printers.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1933]

Endorsed on verso as received 6 October 1932.

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RR/46/42
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05 October 1932
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George Udny Yule, Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses' by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson, 05 October 1932, RR/46/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_46_42/referees-report-by-george-udny-yule-on-a-paper-on-the-problem-of-the-most-efficient-tests-of-statistical-hypotheses-by-jerzy-neyman-and-egon-sharpe-pearson, accessed on 12 December 2024

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