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The Logic of Inductive Inference

The Logic of Inductive Inference 1935] By PROFESSOR R. A. FISHER, Sc.D., F.R.S. [Read before the Royal Statistical Society on Tuesday, December 18th, 1934, the PRESIDENT, PROFESSOR M. GREENWOOD, F.R.S., in the Chair.] WHEN the invitation of your Council was extended to me to address this Society on some of the theoretical researches with which I have been associated, I took it as an indication that the time was now thought ripe for a discussion, in summary, of the net effect of these researches upon our conception of what statistical methods are capable of doing, and upon the outlook and ideas which may usefully be acquired in the course of mathematical training for a statistical career. I welcomed also the invitation, personally, as affording an opportunity of putting forward the opinion to which I find myself more and more strongly drawn, that the essential effect of the general body of researches in mathematical statistics during the last fifteen years is fundamentally a reconstruction of logical rather than mathematical ideas, although the solution of mathematical problems has contributed essentially to this reconstruction. I have called my paper" The Logic of Inductive Inference." It might just as well have been called" On making sense of figures." http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Oxford University Press

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0964-1998
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10.1111/j.2397-2335.1935.tb04208.x
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1935] By PROFESSOR R. A. FISHER, Sc.D., F.R.S. [Read before the Royal Statistical Society on Tuesday, December 18th, 1934, the PRESIDENT, PROFESSOR M. GREENWOOD, F.R.S., in the Chair.] WHEN the invitation of your Council was extended to me to address this Society on some of the theoretical researches with which I have been associated, I took it as an indication that the time was now thought ripe for a discussion, in summary, of the net effect of these researches upon our conception of what statistical methods are capable of doing, and upon the outlook and ideas which may usefully be acquired in the course of mathematical training for a statistical career. I welcomed also the invitation, personally, as affording an opportunity of putting forward the opinion to which I find myself more and more strongly drawn, that the essential effect of the general body of researches in mathematical statistics during the last fifteen years is fundamentally a reconstruction of logical rather than mathematical ideas, although the solution of mathematical problems has contributed essentially to this reconstruction. I have called my paper" The Logic of Inductive Inference." It might just as well have been called" On making sense of figures."

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