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Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'Notes on the theory of estimation' by J Neyman

Reference number: RR/60/27

Date: January 1937

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. The title should be changed and some references should be added.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1937].

[Title changed to 'Outline of a theory of statistical estimation based on the classical theory of probability'].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 January 1937

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RR/60/27
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January 1937
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Alexander Craig Aitken, Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'Notes on the theory of estimation' by J Neyman, January 1937, RR/60/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_60_27/referees-report-by-alexander-craig-aitken-on-a-paper-notes-on-the-theory-of-estimation-by-j-neyman, accessed on 20 April 2026

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