Misadventures in conditional expectation: The two-envelope problem [Book Review]

Erkenntnis 51 (2):233-241 (1999)
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Several fallacies of conditionalization are illustrated, using the two-envelope problem as a case in point.

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The Foundations of Statistics.Leonard Savage - 1954 - Wiley Publications in Statistics.
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The foundations of statistics.P. C. Mahalanobis - 1954 - Dialectica 8 (2):95-111.
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