Re: Gian-Carlo Rota's "Twelve problems in probability no one likes to bring up."

> I'm no expert statistician, so I may have missed something here. But,
> choosing "Bayes law" as an example, this is an extremely frequently
> "brought up" topic.
To judge, first read what Rota. He was not pandering to generalities...

>But, I think that the langauge ".... no one likes to bring up ..." may
be a bit of an
>exaggeration.
This was not my title. It was the title of Rota's Fubini lecture in
Italy (a very, very well received lecture). As far as I know, Rota was
so good in mathematics he didn't sweat
these small issues ... he had far bigger fish to fry.

Shane

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