3 papers
stat.OT2023
J. B. S. Haldane's Rule of Succession
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Sandy Zabell, Quentin F. Gronau
After Bayes, the oldest Bayesian account of enumerative induction is given by Laplace's so-called rule of succession: if all observed instances of a phenomenon to date exhibit…
math.HO2022
In praise (and search) of J. V. Uspensky
Persi Diaconis, Sandy Zabell
The two of us have shared a fascination with James Victor Uspensky's 1937 textbook ever since our graduate student days: it cont…
math.PR2016
Large deviation asymptotics for a random variable with Lévy measure supported by
Richard Arratia, Fred Kochman, Sandy Zabell
Asymptotics for Dickman's number theoretic function , as , were given de Bruijn and Alladi, and later in sharper form by Hildebrand and Tenenbaum. The p…