Class 69: Why Parameters Don't Exist

Parameters don't exist because distributions don't exist, and distributions don't exist because probability doesn't exist. You cannot have "estimates" of "true" values when there are no values.

Written lecture: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/

Jaynes's book:
http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/GaussianModel/
JaynesProbabilityTheory.pdf

Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

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