It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we s… - Dennis Lindley

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It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

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Dennis Victor Lindley (July 25, 1923 – December 14, 2013) was a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.

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