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A note on metastatistics or ‘an essay toward stating a problem in the doctrine of chances’

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    Lucien Lecam

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This paper was prepared with the partial support of the National Science Foundation, Grant GP-2593.

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Lecam, L. A note on metastatistics or ‘an essay toward stating a problem in the doctrine of chances’. Synthese 36, 133–160 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485696

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