Cyan comments on A Request for Open Problems - Less Wrong

25 Post author: MrHen 08 May 2009 01:33PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (104)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Cyan 08 May 2009 08:14:51PM *  1 point [-]

I mean the continuous uniform distribution. "Centered at c" is intended to indicate that the mean of the distribution is c.

ETA: Let me be specific -- I'll use the notation of the linked Wikipedia article.

You know that b - a = 1.

c = (a + b)/2 is unknown, and the confidence interval is supposed to help you infer it.