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We come now to the most polemical of all my articles. There are several reasons for this heated style. Firstly, most of it was written in 1963, as a reply to the ‘astonishing article’ of Bross referred to, whose polemics make mine seem unimaginative. Indeed, his anti-Bayesian tirade contained nothing but polemics, unsupported by a single technical fact. But had he taken the trouble to read Jeffreys, he would have found demonstrations, on the level of technical fact with no polemics, of the falsity of his charges.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1989). Confidence Intervals vs Bayesian Intervals (1976). In: Rosenkrantz, R.D. (eds) E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics. Synthese Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6581-2_9
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