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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The concepts of inverse probability and fiducial probability referring to unknown parameters' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Reference number: RR/47/51

Date: November 1932

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It is short and interesting. The author has mis-spelt Dr Jeffrey's name, which should be rectified.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1933].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 November 1932.

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The concepts of inverse probability and fiducial probability referring to unknown parameters' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, November 1932, RR/47/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_51/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-the-concepts-of-inverse-probability-and-fiducial-probability-referring-to-unknown-parameters-by-ronald-aylmer-fisher, accessed on 16 March 2025

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