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MINI LECTURE 17: Maximum Ignorance Probability (a bit more technical)

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What do you do when you must estimate a probability and there is ZERO information?
A surgeon did 60 operations with 0 failure. What's her or his failure rate?
I didn't realize that the trick wasn't in the literature until John Hughes wrote a paper in Statistics and Probability Letters based on my blog post presenting the idea.

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