Neyman & Pearson (1933), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character, vol. 231, pp. 289–337 (1933), article IX; reprinted in Breakthroughs in Statistics, vol. I (Springer, 1992), not read — DOI-10.1098/rsta.1933.0009
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-09-30 at the owner’s request, as one of the sources registered to cover signal detection theory,
which the record lacked; its only detection-theory entry, Van Trees 1968 (LIT-351), is unreachable.
published: is the first appearance (ADR-002).
A close reading was attempted on 2026-09-30. No legitimate full text could be reached: The converted-text cache holds no copy (manifest grep for Neyman / “most efficient tests” found nothing). The publisher’s free historical archive was tried first; OpenAlex marks the paper open access (“diamond”, oa_url = the DOI landing page), but every Royal Society URL tried (doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.1933.0009, the same with ?download=true, doi/epdf/…, and the doi/ landing page) returned HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare “Just a moment…” JavaScript challenge that a non-browser client cannot pass; WebFetch got the same 403. JSTOR (stable 91247, both the landing page and /stable/pdf/) returned a “Client Challenge” page. A Wayback Machine capture of the Royal Society’s own 2018 PDF (rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roypta/231/694-706/289.full.pdf) exists, but web.archive.org is refused by this session’s egress policy (“Blocked by egress policy”), so it was not tried again or routed around. Semantic Scholar does not resolve the DOI. An Internet Archive search found no copy, and a 1933 UK paper whose authors died in 1980–81 is not a US-public-domain issue under the brief’s rule in any case. The Springer reprint in Breakthroughs in Statistics vol. I (1992) is closed. A web search found three copies on third-party sites: a UCLA course directory (stat.ucla.edu/~nchristo/statistics100B/), a blog’s upload area (errorstatistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/) and a personal teaching page (joelvelasco.net/teaching/249/). All three are unauthorised third-party reposts (course or blog uploads by non-authors), which the brief excludes, so none was downloaded. The paper stays unread until the Royal Society PDF can be fetched through a browser or supplied. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.