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q-fin.GN2014★ 47 cited
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Rupert Read, Raphael Douady +2
We present a non-naive version of the Precautionary (PP) that allows us to avoid paranoia and paralysis by confining precaution to specific domains and problems. PP is intended to…
stat.AP2014★ 25 cited
On the Super-Additivity and Estimation Biases of Quantile Contributions
Nassim N Taleb, Raphael Douady
Sample measures of top centile contributions to the total (concentration) are downward biased, unstable estimators, extremely sensitive to sample size and concave in accounting for…