Getting to know your probabilities: Three ways to frame personal probabilities for decision making
| Abstract | Teddy Seidenfeld – CMU An old, wise, and widely held attitude in Statistics is that modest intervention in the design of an experiment followed by simple statistical analysis may yield much more of value than using very sophisticated statistical analysis on a poorly designed existing data set | |||||||||
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