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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Probability, statistics, and the theory of errors' by Harold Jeffreys

Reference number: RR/48/54

Date: March 1933

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The controversy will not advance any further or be settled without the influence of an outside arbiter. Whilst the current paper is recommended for publication, those involved in the controversy should be informed that no further papers on the matter will be accepted.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 17 March 1933.

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RR/48/54
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March 1933
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Probability, statistics, and the theory of errors' by Harold Jeffreys, March 1933, RR/48/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_48_54/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-probability-statistics-and-the-theory-of-errors-by-harold-jeffreys, accessed on 12 December 2025

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