Commentary: Statistics: Embracing the ignorance

STATISTICS AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN ECOLOGY (with commentary)

Embracing the future.

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Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Does ignorance of the whole imply ignorance of the parts?

In this appendix, we provide a detailed derivation of our results. To this end, we first provide some more detailed background on the entropic quantities we use in Section I. In Section II we show that the splitting inequality (16) is satisfied in any deterministic non-contextual hidden variable model (NC-HV model for short). This is a minor twist on the existing classical proof [1] due to Wull...

Embracing the middle ground:

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