Temporally asymmetric inference in a Markov process
Philosophy of Science 58 (3):398-410 (1991)
| Abstract | A model of a Markov process is presented in which observing the present state of a system is asymmetrically related to inferring the system's future and inferring its past. A likelihood inference about the system's past state, based on observing its present state, is justified no matter what the parameter values in the model happen to be. In contrast, a probability inference of the system's future state, based on observing its present state, requires further information about the parameter values | |||||||||
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