Remarks on the role of conditional probability in data exploration

Bruno Barigelli and Romana Scozzafava

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1984, vol. 2, issue 1, 15-18

Abstract: A careful discussion of the concept of conditional event leads to a sensible use of frequency data as conditional probabilities: as a by-product, the well-known 'paradoxes' arising from the so-called confounding effect are avoided.

Keywords: conditional; event; conditional; probability; exchangeability; degree; of; belief; inference; contingency; tables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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