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>Edit: The helpful explanation linked in a comment on the question you linked is defective because it applies to all continuous probability distributions. No,
by consz 14y ago
>Edit: The helpful explanation linked in a comment on the question you linked is defective because it applies to all continuous probability distributions.
No, why do you think so?
- anonymoushn 14y agoIt contains the sentence "For any distribution, the sum of probabilities always equals 1" without the caveat that the sum is of a countable number of probabilities. It applies to every continuous distribution using the same argument, but with "the sum across all naturals" replaced with "the sum across the appropriate universe."
- Fargren 14y ago"the sum across the appropriate universe" for Reals is an integral. An integral can go from -Infinite to Infinite and still equal 1. This is the reason, for instance, why Zeno's Paradox of movement doesn't really forbid all movement.
- anonymoushn 14y agoThis comment is more or less irrelevant. The third axiom of probability is about sums of countably many terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axioms_of_probability#Third_axiom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axioms_of_probability#Third_axi...