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Luke_A_Somers comments on What is the best paper explaining the superiority of Bayesianism over frequentism? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 03 January 2013 03:27:24PM 0 points [-]

How? If any of the probabilities that the posterior probability factors into are zero, the product is also zero. Or do you just mean that since data are unlimited precision in a continuous space, no answer can ever have a positive probability because it's infinitely unlikely?

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