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    High School Occam's razor in science: all-time practice or modern fashion?

    I agree. I learned statistics from the text 'Theory of Probability' by Harold Jeffreys. He used William of Ockham's rule: 'Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity'. First edition 1939. The first convincing text about statistical inference that I found. I based my Ph.D on his work...
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    Marginal/Conditional Probability Mass Functions

    X=1, then Pr(Y=0|X = 1)=5/24, Pr(Y=1|X=1)=1/24; X=2, then Pr(Y=0|X=2)=4/24, Pr(Y=1|X=2)=2/24; Continue for each value of X.