Bibliography of Ontario History: 1867-1976. 2 vols. Compiled by Olga B. Bishop with Barbara I. Irwin and Clara Miller. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1980. Pp. xviii, 1760, index. ISBN 0-8020-2359-2 (set). $75.00.

The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution Partha Niyogi (University of Chicago) The MIT Press, 2006, xviii+482 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-262-14094-2

20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 16-18, 1982

University of Toronto Department of Economics

This paper considers the problem of testing an expert who makes probabilistic forecasts about the outcomes of a stochastic process. I show that, under general conditions on the tester’s prior, a likelihood test can distinguish informed from uninformed experts with high prior probability. The test rejects informed experts on data-generating processes where the tester quickly learns the true prob...

Alison Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. I-XII, 1-466, ISBN: 978-0-231-14766-8.

confidentiality oblige, when it concerns – as is often the case – genital or urinary disease. Coste successfully underlines that the writing of consilia can be linked with a poetic or literary approach: the medical expert writes the private history of a patient, as a worthy heir to Hippocrates; he selects words and suitable expressions according to the recipient (an esteemed fellow-member will ...

University of Toronto Department of Economics

We consider a price discrimination problem in which a seller has a single object for sale to a potential buyer. At the time of contracting, the buyer’s private type is his incomplete private information about his value, and the seller can disclose additional private information to the buyer. We study the question of whether discriminatory information disclosure can be profitable to the seller u...