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Inductive Inference: an Axiomatic Approach

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Gilboa, I.
Schmeidler, D.

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A predictor is asked to rank eventualities according to their plausibility, based on past cases. We assume that she can form a ranking given any memory that consists of repetitions of past cases.

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Paper provided by Tel Aviv in its series Papers with number 29-99.

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