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		jules on June 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: German Tank Problem Is there for every commonly used frequentist estimation method a bayesian prior that gives the same answer?

mturmon on June 10, 2010 [–]

For every commonly used frequentist estimator, there is an uncountable infinity of intractable Bayesian estimators.

aristus on June 11, 2010 | [–]

...probably.

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