This leads to the unfortunate consequence that the likely error of N=10 is 0.017<x<0.64956 while for N=1,000,000 it is the similar range 0.017<x<0.33433
I’m trying to follow the argument in footnote 1, but I got stuck on the above sentence—where did these values (especially the 0.017) come from?
I’m trying to follow the argument in footnote 1, but I got stuck on the above sentence—where did these values (especially the 0.017) come from?
IIRC, they’re the ‘plus’ and the ‘minus’ range of the equation Jaynes gave using ±.