Law consequences of invalidity in a succession law

A Natural Law of Succession

Consider the following problem. You are given an alphabet of k distinct symbols and are told that the i symbol occurred exactly ni times in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the conditional probability that the next symbol will be i. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperf...

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law

A Natural Law of Succession 1

Consider the problem of multinomial estimation. You are given an alphabet of distinct symbols and are told the frequency with which each symbol occurred in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the symbol probabilities. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperforms standard appr...

The law of unintended consequences.

Approximately 25 years ago, a group of concerned citizens, led by the celebrity couple Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, lobbied for a strict rent control law in the ocean-side California city of Santa Monica. Real estate prices had recently escalated dramatically, and monthly rent prices for the city’s apartments had begun to increase as well. The newspapers were filled with touching stories about el...

The law of unintended consequences?