Theory of Probability Harold Jeffreys (Third edition, 447 + ix pp., Oxford Univ. Press, 84s.)
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Harold Jeffreys’ Theory of Probability revisited
Published nearly seventy years ago, Jeffreys’ Theory of Probability (1939) has had a unique impact on the Bayesian community and is now considered to be one of the main classics in Bayesian Statistics as well as the initiator of the objective Bayes school. In particular, its advances on the derivation of noninformative priors as well as on the scaling of Bayes factors have had a lasting impact ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Journal International
سال: 1962
ISSN: 0956-540X,1365-246X
DOI: 10.1093/gji.6.4.555