A discussion among scientists
Discovery and Inference
What is a meaningful statement about Nature and how do we arrive at it? The problems of scientific inference have recently been highlighted on occasions when there is widespread evidence but little chance to experiment-for instance, the hypothesis that smoking and lung-cancer are causally related.
Chairman: M. G. Kendall
Professor of Statistics, University of London
Panel:
D. V. Lindley
Lecturer in Mathematics. University of Cambridge
J. R. N. Stone
Leake Professor of Finance and Accounting. University of Cambridge
J. W. Whitfield
Reader in Psychology, University of London
D. H. Wilkinson F.R.S. ,
Professor of Nuclear Physics,
The Clarendon Laboratory.
University of Oxford