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Estimating rates from a single occurrence of a rare event

Win-Vector Blog 2013-12-20

Summary:

Elon Musk’s writing about a Tesla battery fire reminded me of some of the math related to trying to estimate the rate of a rare event from a single occurrence of the event (plus many non-event occurrences). In this article we work through some of the ideas. Elon Musk wrote that the issues of the […]

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Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

12/20/2013, 07:12

Date published:

10/05/2013, 11:48