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Outline of a Theory of Statistical Estimation Based on the Classical Theory of Probability

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

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Jerzy Neyman's 1937 paper introducing the confidence interval, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, volume 236, pages 333 to 380.

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Author
Jerzy Neyman
Publisher
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A
Publication Year
1937
Source Type
Journal article
Reliability Tier
1
The primary published paper in which the confidence interval was introduced, the concept's own foundational source.
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Outline of a Theory of Statistical Estimation Based on the Classical Theory of Probability
Jerzy Neyman, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 1937
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