Bayesian posteriors for arbitrarily rare events
We study how much data a Bayesian observer needs to correctly infer the relative likelihoods of two events when both events are arbitrarily rare. Each period, either a blue die or a red die is tossed. The two dice land on side 1 with unknown probabilities p[subscript 1] and q[subscript 1], which can...
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Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences,
2018-01-19T20:28:12Z.
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