Misadventures in conditional expectation: The two-envelope problem [Book Review]

Erkenntnis 51 (2-3):233-241 (1999)
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Several fallacies of conditionalization are illustrated, using the two-envelope problem as a case in point.

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10.1023/a:1005488325727

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Opening Two Envelopes.Paul Syverson - 2010 - Acta Analytica 25 (4):479-498.

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The Foundations of Statistics.Leonard J. Savage - 1954 - Wiley Publications in Statistics.
The Foundations of Statistics.Leonard J. Savage - 1954 - Synthese 11 (1):86-89.
The Two-Envelope Paradox.John Broome - 1995 - Analysis 55 (1):6 - 11.

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