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Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'Sufficient statistics and uniformly most powerful tests of statistical hypotheses' by J Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson

Reference number: RR/56/54

Date: 17 December 1935

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. However, does not feel a competent expert in the specific line of work.The typescript should be checked by the printers.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 19 December 1935.

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RR/56/54
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17 December 1935
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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George Udny Yule, Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'Sufficient statistics and uniformly most powerful tests of statistical hypotheses' by J Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson, 17 December 1935, RR/56/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_54/referees-report-by-george-udny-yule-on-a-paper-sufficient-statistics-and-uniformly-most-powerful-tests-of-statistical-hypotheses-by-j-neyman-and-egon-sharpe-pearson, accessed on 06 October 2026

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