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Statistics, probability, and game theory : papers in honor of David Blackwell
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This article is published in Journal of the American Statistical Association.The article was published on 1999-12-01. It has received 48 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Game theory & Honor.read more
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Absolutely no free lunches
TL;DR: This paper is concerned with learners who aim to learn patterns in infinite binary sequences: shown longer and longer initial segments of a binary sequence, they either attempt to predict whether the next bit will be a 0 or will be an 1 or they issue forecast probabilities for these events.
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Patterns and exchangeability
TL;DR: After observing the relationship between patterns and Kingman's paintbox processes, and discussing the redundancy of a class of mixture codes for patterns, alternate representations of patterns in terms of graph limits are discussed.
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Inferences on the Number of Unseen Species and the Number of Abundant/Rare Species
TL;DR: This paper develops an asymmetric multinomial-Dirichlet probability model using species frequency data and applies it to a DNA segment data set and a butterfly data set to draw inferences on the number of rare species.
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A Brief History of the Statistics Department of the University of California at Berkeley
TL;DR: Describing what seems to us a remarkable success story: one person starting “a cell of statistical research and teaching not being hampered by any existing traditions and routines,” and seeing that cell grow rapidly into a major force in academic statistics worldwide.
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Comparisons of Ambiguous Experiments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare ambiguous experiments from the point of view of an ambiguity averse decision maker and extend the Blackwell (1951, 1953) ordering to the ambiguous statistical experiment setting.