Last fall I ended up teaching a statistics course for engineers. I work at a small university in Norway, and the available textbooks in Norwegian were...
Hello everyone. Perhaps someone here can confirm some of my suspicions, or at least correct some of my misinterpretations. It seems to me that the area where...
Hi RR, Intuitively I'd agree with you, but then I know nothing about economics. As to why frequentist approaches persist, tradition (especially in education)...
... I've always been puzzled by the classical logic. Many nulls are point nulls, that is: H0: x=0, where x is some population parameter of interest....
... I agree - many of the nulls that are actually used are ones to which we should assign a prior probability of zero. But things become trickier when you...
... This is interesting to me, as I own a few Bayesian econometrics texts--Lancaster's Bayesian Econometrics and Greenburg's Intro to Bayesian Econometrics. I...
The Name Index file for Jaynes's Probability Theory has been updated to show names that are referred to in a footnote, e.g. 234n for a name in a footnote on...
While working through Jaynes's book I compiled a list of what I believe are (mostly minor) errors and misprints. These are in addition to Kevin Van Horn's...
I'm working through Probability Theory with a colleague at work and we can't settle on the right answer for Exercise 2.1. For those of you way past this one...
Hi Troy, A Venn diagram does not show that - Venn diagrams partition the space of proposition truth values (or random variables in traditional probability ...
I was recently looking over Jaynes resolution of Bertrand's paradox using transformation groups (what a simple, beautiful idea!), and I discovered what appears...
I've compiled a Subject Index for Jaynes's book, and uploaded it as SubjectIndex.xls. I'd appreciate any suggestions for expanding or improving it. Arnold...
It's something like - "Philosophers can say anything they want, because they don't have to get anything right." Anyone know where Jaynes said that? I'm pretty...
It's on page 144 of Jaynes's book: "Philosophers are free to do whatever they please, because they don't have to do anything right". Arnold [Non-text...
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Malcolm Dean
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Jun 30, 2010 8:16 pm
Jaynes was quoting a colleague: *"Philosophers are free to do whatever they please, because they don't have to do anything right."* Probability Theory...
Hi all, I'm self-studying the book and trying to solve exercise 3.2, but no luck so far. I tried to expand P(A1A2...Ak) by product rule(A1 means color 1 is...
A simple example can help in seeing a solution to this problem. Suppose we have just two colors, red and white, and proposition R states at least one red ball...
Hi Jason, This is probably a longer delayed response than you were hoping for, but better late than never I guess. A caveat: please don't assume that I know ...
I've uploaded a file (Reviews.doc) that lists reviews of two of Jaynes's books: Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, and Papers on Probability,...
Re Eq 9.48 and 9.49, I see why log(W)/(nH) --> 1, but it doesn't follow that we can exponentiate numerator and denominator to get W/exp(nH) --> 1. The problem...
If you write log{sqrt(2 pi n)} as (1/2){log(2 pi) + log(n)}, then you can rearrange to get a term (n + 1/2)log(n). For large n this becomes nlog(n), so that...
Hello , I am reading the book Probability: Logic of Science. I have a doubt on one of the concept in the book, I want to get some insight which is lacking. If...
The correspondence mentioned is available online. http://ucispace.lib.uci.edu/handle/10575/1158 They seem to be talking more about Jaynes work in probability...
