Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics....

Bayesian statistics, the Jeffreys prior is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space. Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, its density function...

to 1969. In 1940, Swirles married fellow mathematician Harold Jeffreys becoming Lady Jeffreys when he was knighted in 1953. She enjoyed music and was...

politician George Jeffreys (pastor) (1889–1962), British religious leader Gina Jeffreys (born 1968), Australian singer Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989), British...

history of science (Agnes Mary Clerke Medal). Lectureships include the Harold Jeffreys Lectureship in geophysics, the George Darwin Lectureship in astronomy...

(1836–1882) George Darwin (1883–1912) Arthur Eddington (1913–1944) Harold Jeffreys (1946–1958) Fred Hoyle (1958–1972) Martin Rees (1973–1991) Richard...

domain [0, 1] was pointed out by Harold Jeffreys in the first edition (1939) of his book Theory of Probability ( p. 123). Jeffreys writes "Certainly if we take...

the results of other approaches. This book, which he dedicated to Harold Jeffreys, was published posthumously in 2003 (from an incomplete manuscript...

giving rise to objective and subjective currents in Bayesian practice. Harold Jeffreys' Theory of Probability (first published in 1939) played an important...

J(1,2)=I(1:2)+I(2:1)} , which had already been defined and used by Harold Jeffreys in 1948. In Kullback (1959), the symmetrized form is again referred...

problem of the disagreement between the two approaches was discussed in Harold Jeffreys' 1939 textbook; it became known as Lindley's paradox after Dennis Lindley...

probability was developed mainly by Laplace. About 200 years later, Sir Harold Jeffreys put Bayes's algorithm and Laplace's formulation on an axiomatic basis...

hypothesis is one of the key advantages of this analysis method. Harold Jeffreys gave a scale (Jeffreys' scale) for interpretation of K {\displaystyle K} : The...

many others. Ronald Fisher Harald Cramér Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Harold Jeffreys Solomon Kullback Jean-Louis Koszul Richard Leibler Claude Shannon Imre...

twentieth-century philosophers (best known for confirmation probability) Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) - one of the giants within Bayesian statistics school Richard...

the mainshock was produced along a shallow crustal fault. In 1926, Harold Jeffreys was the first to claim, based on his study of earthquake waves, that...

challenged by Ronald Fisher, who preferred randomized designs. The Bayesian Harold Jeffreys, and Gosset's close associates Jerzy Neyman and Egon S. Pearson sided...

Léon Brillouin, who all developed it in 1926. In 1923, mathematician Harold Jeffreys had developed a general method of approximating solutions to linear...

razor from probability theory, including notable attempts made by Harold Jeffreys and E. T. Jaynes. The probabilistic (Bayesian) basis for Occam's razor...

the Templeton Prize, George Rochester, co-discoverer of the kaon, Harold Jeffreys, winner of the Royal Society's Copley Medal, and Kingsley Charles Dunham...

proof as a Tripos question, later published in an appendix to Sir Harold Jeffreys' book Scientific Inference. In 1947, she was elected to be a Fellow...

Kozłowski 1962 Leonard Hawkes 1963 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1964 Harold Jeffreys 1965 D. M. S. Watson 1966 Francis Parker Shepard 1967 Edward Crisp...

(1946) A. Bradford Hill (1953) E. S. Pearson (1955) Frank Yates (1960) Harold Jeffreys (1962) Jerzy Neyman (1966) M. G. Kendall (1968) M. S. Bartlett (1969)...

could move around. Many distinguished scientists of the time, such as Harold Jeffreys and Charles Schuchert, were outspoken critics of continental drift...

The Jeffreys model like the Zener model is a three element model. It consist of two dashpots and a spring. It was proposed in 1929 by Harold Jeffreys to...

[citation needed] Objective Bayesian inference was further developed by Harold Jeffreys at the University of Cambridge. His book Theory of Probability first...

that it has an infinite mass). Harold Jeffreys devised a systematic way for designing uninformative priors as e.g., Jeffreys prior p−1/2(1 − p)−1/2 for the...

advanced degrees, rather than research-training degrees at the PhD level. Harold Jeffreys said that getting a Cambridge ScD was "more or less equivalent to being...

Friedrich Hopfner, 1881–1949 (Austria) Martin Hotine, 1898–1968 (England) Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 (England) William M. Kaula, 1926–2000 (United States) Karl-Rudolf...

ISBN 0-691-00547-8; 1st pbk printing{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) Kuhn, Harold W. (1955). "Review of The Elements of Probability Theory and Some of its...