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دينيس ليندلي

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دينيس ليندلي

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Also known as Dennis Victor Lindley, D. V. Lindley

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  • Making Decisions
  • Understanding Uncertainty

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1944-03-21
Active to
2023-03-03
countrydeath by covid-19rocksessionworld music

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Quotes

  • There are some things that you know to be true, and others that you know to be false; yet, despite this extensive knowledge that you have, there remain many things whose truth or falsity is not known to you. We say that you are uncertain about them. You are uncertain, to varying degrees, about everything in the future; much of the past is hidden from you; and there is a lot of the present about which you do not have full information. Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.
  • Generally there is Stigler’s law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
  • Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.
  • It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
  • Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.
  • There is much evidence that people are not rational, in the economist’s sense; nor do they take into account expectation, in the precise interpretation of that word. As a result economic theory often does not correspond with what happens in the market. Some would argue that we need descriptive economics. I would argue that all should be taught about probability, utility, and MEU (maximization of expected utility) and act accordingly.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Dennis
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Surbiton
Place of death
Somerset
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
Bayesian inference
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date of birth
1923-07-25
date of death
2013-12-14
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