1 Adventures in FlatLand: Stone’s Paradox
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Today I want to discuss a famous example of his, described in Stone (1970, 1976, 1982). In technical jargon, he shows that “a finitely additive measure on the free group with two generators is nonconglomerable.” In English: even for a simple problem with a discrete parameters space, flat priors can lead to surprises. Fortunately, we don’t need to know anything about free groups to understand this example.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015