| Description | Correspondence and other material regarding E S Pearson's work on inference. Consists of the following:
Correspondence between E S Pearson and D V Lindley, offprint of "Some Problems Connected with Statistical Inference" by D R Cox (1958), typescript of "E S Pearson's reflections on DVL's account of Savage's approach" and associated correspondence marked "Inference discussion with Lindley & Barnard", and MS notes marked "Miscellaneous Notes ?1959 on Lindley".
Correspondence between E S Pearson and Joseph Berkson, partly relating to the International Association for Statistics in Physical Sciences, and an offprint of "Apparent Anomalies and Irregularities in Maximum Likelihood Estimation" (1961).
Galley proof of "Likelihood Inference and Time Series" by G A Barnard, G M Jenkins and C B Winstein (1962) and drafts of discussions of the paper by J Durbin and E S Pearson.
TS copy of "English summary of 'On the Manner of Choosing Initial Probabilities'" by Bruno de Finetti and Leonard J Savage, and pages of manuscript notes and tables by ESP.
Notes and correspondence between E S Pearson and G A Barnard and L J Savage regarding ESP's paper "An extension of the legend of Hiero's Crown", with a TS copy of the paper, and papers from a discussion at a conference on the foundations of statistics held at Birkbeck in July 1959.
Further correspondence and notes relating to ESP's paper "An extension of the legend of Hiero's Crown".
Correspondence and notes, particularly regarding ESP's speech at the Birkbeck conference in July 1959.
Letters from L J Savage to ESP, and two papers by Savage for the 4th Berkeley Symposium, 27 June 1960.
Reprint of "The Nature of Probability" (1958) by R A Fisher, letters from D V Lindley regarding the teaching of statistics with an example statistics syllabus from the Cambridge natural sciences tripos, letters from M S Bartlett and D R Cox, and some MS notes.
Letters between ESP and Bernard Welch, TS of a paper titled "Note on some criticisms made by Sir Ronald Fisher" by B L Welch, letters between ESP and M S Bartlett regarding Fisher's paper "On a Test of Significance in Pearson's Biometrika Tables (no.11)" (?), correspondence with H O Hartley, J Irwin and Bernard Welch also regarding Fisher's paper, and correspondence with Jerzy Neyman regarding a response to Fisher, including draft comments for publication (c1953).
Correspondence with D V Lindley, offprint of "The Present Crisis in Statistical Theory" by Lancelot Hogben and letters from Hogben. |