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by gwern
2794 days ago
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The memorylessness of the Poisson process makes the statistical aspect a bit trivial. But here's an interesting variant: how should you update your beliefs while waiting if there is a certain probability that the bus won't come at all? "The Ups and the Downs of the Hope Function in a Fruitless Search", Falk et al 1994: https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/bayes/1994-falk |
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