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De Finetti’s Reconstruction of the Bayes-Laplace Paradigm

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This paper includes a concise survey of the work done in compliance with de Finetti’s reconstruction of the Bayes-Laplace paradigm. Section 1 explains that para-digm and Section 2 deals with de Finetti’s criticism. Section 3 quotes some recent results connected with de Finetti’s program and Section 4 provides an illustrative example.

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    Eugenio Regazzini

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Regazzini, E. (1997). De Finetti’s Reconstruction of the Bayes-Laplace Paradigm. In: Costantini, D., Galavotti, M.C. (eds) Probability, Dynamics and Causality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5712-4_2

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