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Thoughts on the “scientific method”: part 2 – frequentist fecklessness

Powers, Michael R. - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 8 (2007) 4, pp. 325-329

Purpose – The purpose of this two‐part series is to consider the role of the “scientific method” (SM) in human understanding, questioning both its consistency in actual practice and its reasonableness as a system of philosophy and action. Design/methodology/approach – Part 2 considers...

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Editorial: How money got its tail (not too light; not too heavy; but "just so")

Powers, Michael R. - In: Journal of risk finance : the convergence of financial … 10 (2009) 5, pp. 425-429

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Editorial: Constant-sum sampling : an apology for statistics' "original sin"

Powers, Michael R. - In: Journal of risk finance : the convergence of financial … 10 (2009) 4, pp. 317-320

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Editorial: Rethinking risk and return : part 2 ; some felicitous Fourier frequencies

Powers, Michael R. - In: Journal of risk finance : the convergence of financial … 10 (2009) 3, pp. 205-209

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Editorial: Rethinking risk and return : part 1 ; novel norms for non-normality?

Powers, Michael R. - In: Journal of risk finance : the convergence of financial … 10 (2009) 2, pp. 101-106

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Editorial: Insurance regulation in America : playing out of its league

Powers, Michael R. - In: Journal of risk finance : the convergence of financial … 10 (2009) 1, pp. 5-6

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Paradox-proof utility functions for heavy-tailed payoffs : two instructive two-envelope problems

Powers, Michael R. - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 1, pp. 26-34

We identify restrictions on a decision maker's utility function that are both necessary and sufficient to preserve dominance reasoning in each of two versions of the Two-Envelope Paradox (TEP). For the classical TEP, the utility function must satisfy a certain recurrence inequality. For the St....

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