Wheeler, Gregory and Cozman, Fabio (2020) On the Imprecision of Full Conditional Probabilities. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to show that if one adopts conditional probabilities as the primitive concept of probability, one must deal with the fact that even in very ordinary circumstances at least some probability values may be imprecise, and that some probability questions may fail to have numerically precise answers.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Synthese | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Imprecise probabilities; full conditional probabilities; Bayesian networks | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Gregory Wheeler | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2020 04:53 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2020 04:53 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 18386 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics | |||||||||
| Date: | 10 November 2020 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18386 |
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