Predicting the unpredictable

DOI10.1007/BF00485351zbMath0757.62006OpenAlexW2022620695WikidataQ29305079 ScholiaQ29305079MaRDI QIDQ1187225

Sandy L. Zabell

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00485351

zbMATH Keywords

representation theoremfundamental theoremattributesexchangeable partitionsexchangeable sequencesrule of successionpredictive inferencesclass of partitionsunsuspected events

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Probability and inductive logic (03B48)

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