Re: A colleague possed a question.

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 02/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:14:22 +0000 (UTC)

In article <V_QOd.18$T4.3812@news.uchicago.edu>,
 <mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>In article <cufu2o$iju$3@rainier.uits.indiana.edu>,
>glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) writes:

>> The probability that 1/sqrt(2) is chosen seems to be identical to the
>>probability that 2 will be chosen, except 1/sqrt(2) might be chosen while
>>2 is not even in the domain. I'm uncomfortable with that.
>
>Well, I'm not fully comfortable with that either, but I don't know of
>any formulation that resolves this issue.

At least it's not just me, then.

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containing the golden mice and the images of the hemorrhoids." 
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