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Suppose an unbiased coin is tossed a million times. Suppose further that the coin lands heads exactly half a million times. The result of the million tosses may be described correctly (a) as a half million cases of landing heads among a million cases of landing heads or tails, (b) as approximately a half million cases of landing heads (or as between 490000 and 510000 cases of landing heads) among a million cases of landing heads or tails; and (c) as a million cases of landing heads or tails (so that the relative frequency of heads is one of a million and one values of r10-6).
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Levi, I. (1988). Four Themes in Statistical Explanation. In: Harper, W.L., Skyrms, B. (eds) Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2865-7_8
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