Re: Is it possible for a probability to be unknown?

In article <4t5nlvF12maitU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Carlos_Santos?= <jcsantos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29-11-2006 14:52, tjb wrote:

Of course it is possible for a probability to be unknown.

This is the reason that statistical inference is needed;
USUALLY the probability distribution is unknown in practice.
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