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Rola Jerzego Spławy-Neymana w kształtowaniu metod statystycznej analizy przyczynowości
Role of Jerzy Spława-Neyman in statistical inference for causality

Author(s): Tadeusz Bednarski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: statistical inference; statistical causality analysis; Jerzy Spława-Neyman; history of statistics

Summary/Abstract: In 1923 Jerzy Spława-Neyman published in the Roczniki Nauk Rolniczych a paper devoted to applications of probability theory to agricultural experiments. The work written in Polish language reached a wider international statistical community in 1990 and was recognized as a pioneering achievement in the field of statistical causal analysis. The aim of this work is to present Neyman’s ideas in the context of modern counterfactual approach to statistical causality analysis.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 309
  • Page Range: 11-18
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish