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Is there a probability of probabilities?

Anonymous Wed 11 Aug 08:24:34 2021 No.13502939 View Reply Original Report

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Consider having a bit. Obviously you can define a probability of it being 0, or 1. Let's name the probability of being 0, p. Then could you define a probability that basically determines with a different probability q the value of p? Does this exists? If so where can I find it. Could you even go higher? Is it even sensible or useful as a notion?

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 00:59:03 No.13506885 Report

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 01:17:27 No.13506991 Report

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This is kind of retarded, but the fact that you're thinking about it means that you're ready to start learning probability and statistics, which is good. Read before you ask more stupid questions though.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 01:18:31 No.13507002 Report

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>>13502939
A probability mass function can be any function anon. Can you take a function of a function?

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 02:31:06 No.13507375 Report

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>>13502939
>Is there a probability of probabilities?
Probably.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 02:38:52 No.13507403 Report

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>>13502939
>probability of something being 0 or 1 is random
>There's another probability of something which determines the probability values themselves

I mean, if you started out that way sure. You could have a random thing happen that causes another random thing to happen and the values of those random things will be decided on the first random event.

I don't see how this would be remotely impossible or improbable and not just a simple observation about cause and effect.

Otherwise, I don't think I understand your question.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 02:44:55 No.13507432 Report

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>>13502939
Like, I mean, if you're not talking about an event causing another event in order or whatever, then I don't get the question because it sounds like the "probability of probabilities" is just the probability itself in the end. There wouldn't be anything else. You'd just get back a bare probability. There can be factors influencing how the probability plays out, but these would just be conditions and situations...

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 02:45:15 No.13507437 Report

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>>13507403
He means can a parameter of one distribution be given by another basically.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Aug 2021 03:25:31 No.13507601 Report

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Probability is a measure of uncertainty. What you're asking for is a measure of uncertainty of your uncertainty, which is also known as a confidence interval.

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