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

In Bayesian probability, the Jeffreys prior, named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space; its density...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

seismologists of the time, such as Beno Gutenberg, Charles Richter, and Harold Jeffreys, adopted this interpretation within two or three years, but it took...

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

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

status (the 'null hypothesis'), and only considers evidence against it. Harold Jeffreys gave a scale for interpretation of K: The second column gives the corresponding...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Infinite expression Infinite series Pentagonal number theorem Jeffreys, Harold; Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles (1999). Methods of Mathematical Physics. Cambridge...

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

George Rochester (1926), co-discoverer of the kaon sub-atomic particle, Harold Jeffreys (Mathematics, 1919), winner of the Royal Society's Copley Medal, and...

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...

William Herschel Russell Gap 118,614 33 Henry Norris Russell Jeffreys Gap 118,950 38 Harold Jeffreys Kuiper Gap 119,405 3 Gerard Kuiper Laplace Gap 119,967...

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...

1949 1951 57 Herbert Dingle 1951 1953 58 John Jackson 1953 1955 59 Harold Jeffreys 1955 1957 60 William Herbert Steavenson 1957 1959 61 Roderick Oliver...

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...

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