Turing’s anticipation of empirical bayes in connection with the cryptanalysis of the naval enigma*

DOI10.1080/00949650008812016zbMath1054.62004OpenAlexW2162720870MaRDI QIDQ4514242

Irving John Good

Publication date: 2000

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949650008812016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Cryptography (94A60) Data encryption (aspects in computer science) (68P25) History of statistics (62-03) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

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