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    Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics....
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  • Bayesian statistics, the Jeffreys prior is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space. Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, its density function...
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  • politician George Jeffreys (pastor) (1889–1962), British religious leader Gina Jeffreys (born 1968), Australian singer Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989), British...
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  • to 1969. In 1940, Swirles married fellow mathematician Harold Jeffreys becoming Lady Jeffreys when he was knighted in 1953. She enjoyed music and was...
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    history of science (Agnes Mary Clerke Medal). Lectureships include the Harold Jeffreys Lectureship in geophysics, the George Darwin Lectureship in astronomy...
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  • (1836–1882) George Darwin (1883–1912) Arthur Eddington (1913–1944) Harold Jeffreys (1946–1958) Fred Hoyle (1958–1972) Martin Rees (1973–1991) Richard...
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    the results of other approaches. This book, which he dedicated to Harold Jeffreys, was published posthumously in 2003 (from an incomplete manuscript...
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    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...
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  • giving rise to objective and subjective currents in Bayesian practice. Harold Jeffreys' Theory of Probability (first published in 1939) played an important...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • twentieth-century philosophers (best known for confirmation probability) Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) - one of the giants within Bayesian statistics school Richard...
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    many others. Ronald Fisher Harald Cramér Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Harold Jeffreys Solomon Kullback Jean-Louis Koszul Richard Leibler Claude Shannon Imre...
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    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...
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  • Léon Brillouin, who all developed it in 1926. In 1923, mathematician Harold Jeffreys had developed a general method of approximating solutions to linear...
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    challenged by Ronald Fisher, who preferred randomized designs. The Bayesian Harold Jeffreys, and Gosset's close associates Jerzy Neyman and Egon S. Pearson sided...
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  • razor from probability theory, including notable attempts made by Harold Jeffreys and E. T. Jaynes. The probabilistic (Bayesian) basis for Occam's razor...
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    the Templeton Prize, George Rochester, co-discoverer of the kaon, Harold Jeffreys, winner of the Royal Society's Copley Medal, and Kingsley Charles Dunham...
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    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...
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    Kozłowski 1962 Leonard Hawkes 1963 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1964 Harold Jeffreys 1965 D. M. S. Watson 1966 Francis Parker Shepard 1967 Edward Crisp...
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  • (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)...
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  • 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...
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    could move around. Many distinguished scientists of the time, such as Harold Jeffreys and Charles Schuchert, were outspoken critics of continental drift...
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  • 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...
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  • [citation needed] Objective Bayesian inference was further developed by Harold Jeffreys at the University of Cambridge. His book Theory of Probability first...
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    Friedrich Hopfner, 1881–1949 (Austria) Martin Hotine, 1898–1968 (England) Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 (England) William M. Kaula, 1926–2000 (United States) Karl-Rudolf...
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  • 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...
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  • Lectureship Michael Penston Prize Geophysics Chapman Medal Price Medal Harold Jeffreys Lectureship James Dungey Lectureship Keith Runcorn Prize Both Patrick...
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