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Re:What is ergodicity? (2016) by patrick5415 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:51PM (#20290504)
I disagree that statisticians should adjust their definitions to fit common usage.

I can put any probably on anything I want. That doesn’t imply those numbers mean anything usefu or that what I’m doing is backed by any established theory.

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Re:What is ergodicity? (2016) by kgwgk on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:11AM (#20292121)
There are established theories of probability that have nothing to do with ergodicity. See for example:

Laplace - Théorie analytique des probabilités - 1812

Keynes - A Treatise on Probability - 1921

Jeffreys - Theory of Probability - 1939

Savage - The Foundations of Statistics - 1954

de Finetti - Teoria delle Probabilità - 1970

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