The Bactra Review Mathematical
Methods of Statistics
The one exception known to me is William James, in his essay on ``The Will to
Believe.'' Part of his strategy for on behalf of that will is to distinguish
between the separate risks of believing in a falsehood (type II) and rejecting
a truth (type I); it should in fact be possible to re-cast his argument in
terms of the theory of hypothesis testing. So far as I know, however, James
had no influence on Neyman and Pearson, or on statistics generally. (I don't
think mathematical statistics has had any influence on pragmatism, either.)