Type:
Volume:
30(3)
Pages:
online
Year:
2008
Publisher:
Teaching Statistics
URL:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121376344/abstract
Abstract:
An elusive probability paradox is analysed. The fallacy is traced back to improper use of a symbol that denotes at the same time a random variable and two different values that it may assume.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education