I would like to enter the arena.
I see the original question as two questions, one about
probability in a general sense, and the second about probability as used within
Bayes Theorem. This is in line with the historical arguments.
Most statisticians (from Fisher down to the present
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Herman Rubin wrote:
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I am sure there is a multitude of possible answers to this one.
One way I would answer it is to say that probability is only applicable
On 19 Sep 2000, Herman Rubin wrote:
This would exclude the application of probability to such
things as nuclear physics. While we have to use
observations to draw inferences, the probabilities of
interest are not those about the observations, but about
the underlying process.
No, the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Christopher Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 Sep 2000, Herman Rubin wrote:
This would exclude the application of probability to such
things as nuclear physics. While we have to use
observations to draw inferences, the probabilities of
interest are not
On 19 Sep 2000, Herman Rubin wrote:
No, the probabilities of interest are both those about
the observations and those associated with the underlying
process.
I would disagree with this in most cases. The probabilities of
the observations are not likely to give insight, at least in
many
Hello to everyone!
I has a question for you that comes from a discussion that I had with a
friend of mine.
Due to the fact that with the Bayes Probability definition we can define
a probability even for events that doesn't occur necessarily several
times he say that is possible to associate a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Valar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello to everyone!
I has a question for you that comes from a discussion that I had with a
friend of mine.
Due to the fact that with the Bayes Probability definition we can define
a probability even for events that doesn't occur
I am sure there is a multitude of possible answers to this one.
One way I would answer it is to say that probability is only applicable
to *observable* events - that is, the occurrence of something which is
in some way directly measurable. The existence of God is not observable
in this sense, so
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alan McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am sure there is a multitude of possible answers to this one.
One way I would answer it is to say that probability is only applicable
to *observable* events - that is, the occurrence of something which is
in some way directly
