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Subject:
transition probability --- equally likely??
Category: Science > Math Asked by: elgoog_elgoog-ga List Price: $15.00 |
Posted:
22 Jan 2006 21:23 PST
Expires: 31 Jan 2006 11:53 PST Question ID: 436646 |
Actually, my question can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/e93e02b2004c2b04/c2f13ba350c80999?lnk=st&q=author%3Aroyliuk%40hotmail.com&rnum=1#c2f13ba350c80999 There are several replies there discussing this problem. However, this problem was not completely solved. What I am interested in is to find out whether we can say anything about the transition probability. Please read the problem and all the previous discussion from the above link. Thank you very much. |
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Re: transition probability --- equally likely??
From: kottekoe-ga on 23 Jan 2006 00:33 PST |
The question was answered in the thread. Apparently you don't like the answer. |
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Re: transition probability --- equally likely??
From: elgoog_elgoog-ga on 23 Jan 2006 11:24 PST |
But the thread only discusses the distribution of x or y. It does not give the "transition probability" or the ratio of the transition probability. Am I missing something? |
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Re: transition probability --- equally likely??
From: elgoog_elgoog-ga on 23 Jan 2006 11:49 PST |
//quote from the thread If Y has a distribution with density f_Y, then X = k/Y has density f_X(x) = k/x^2 f_Y(k/x). So if f_Y(a)/f_Y(b) -> 1 for every a and b, f_X(a)/f_X(b) -> b^2/a^2. // This actually computes the posterior probability f(x| f(x,y) = k), right? Therefore f_X(a)/f_X(b) = f_X(x=a|f(x,y)= k) / f_X(x=b|f(x,y)= k) -> b^2/a^2 tells us x may not be equally likely mapped to k. But what does f(f(x,y)=k|x) imply? What if f(f(x,y)=k|x=a) / f(f(x,y)=k|x=b) -->1? |
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Re: transition probability --- equally likely??
From: manuka-ga on 23 Jan 2006 17:49 PST |
Please don't use f(...) as a symbol to indicate probability - you're only confusing the issue further. Indeed, I don't think that Robert Israel should have used f_X and f_Y as symbols for the respective distributions in the sci.math thread, since there's no connection between these and the function f. Be that as it may, the ratio given by Dr. Israel does tell us that x is not (not "may not be") equally mapped to k, given that y is as close to uniform as we can manage, with the associated caveats on what we actually mean by saying something like that with continuous variables. I think what you're asking is what happens when we instead hold x fixed and vary y. The answer is that it's exactly the same, since x and y are symmetrical in the definition of f. It may also be that you're asking about the form of the distribution on y, if we insist that the function must be "equally likely" to map two different values of x to k. In this case we can reuse Dr. Israel's formula. In the region around x=a, we get a density of k/a^2 f_Y(k/a), and around x=b we get k/b^2 f_Y(k/b). If we insist that these must match, we require f_Y(k/a) = (a/b)^2 f_Y(k/b). For this to apply globally we would need f_Y(k/a) = a^2 f_Y(k) for all a (setting b = 1) and thus f_Y(y) = (k/y)^2 f_Y(k). Unfortunately, if you integrate this you get a divergent integral as y->0. So no probability distribution on y can have this property globally. |
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