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Bayes Theory

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The objects of probability will be bets X, Y, ... that have real-valued payoffs X(s), Y(s), ... according to the true state of nature s,where s may be any of the states in a set S.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Yale University, Box 2179, Yale Station, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    J. A. Hartigan

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Hartigan, J.A. (1983). Axioms. In: Bayes Theory. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8242-3_2

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