Tyrrell_McAllister2 comments on Friedman's "Prediction vs. Explanation" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister2 29 September 2008 02:29:55PM 0 points [-]

"One small nitpick: It could be more explicit that in Assumption 2, B1 and B2 range over actual observation, whereas in Assumption 1, B ranges over all possible observations. :)"

Actually, I implicitly was thinking of the "B" variables as ranging over actual observations (past, present, and future) in both assumptions. But you're right: I definitely should have made that explicit.