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Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'The tests for sampling differences and contingency' by Harold Jeffreys

Reference number: RR/64/66

Date: August 1937

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Does not agree with the author's conception of probability. The ideas presented are interesting and important. 'Anyone who reads and disagrees is forced to clarify his own opinions on the matters treated; and this seems to me one good reason for publication'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 30 August 1937.

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RR/64/66
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August 1937
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2 pages
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Alexander Craig Aitken

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Alexander Craig Aitken, Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'The tests for sampling differences and contingency' by Harold Jeffreys, August 1937, RR/64/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_64_66/referees-report-by-alexander-craig-aitken-on-a-paper-the-tests-for-sampling-differences-and-contingency-by-harold-jeffreys, accessed on 15 May 2025

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