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Sources for the Two-envelopes paradox.

Here are improved citations for the first four sources identified at Exchange paradox (footnotes 1-4), which are those NOT among the dozens of sources identified in Two Envelopes "Notes and References", "Further Reading", and "External Links".


 * D.R. Cox. Principles of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 0-521-68567-2 (Example 5.1).
 * Eric Schwitzgebel and Josh Dever. The Two Envelope Paradox and Using Variables Within the Expectation Formula. Department of Philosophy, UC Riverside. 2007-11-06. Confirmed 2011-05-10 #
 * Graham Priest and Greg Restall. Envelopes and Indifference. Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne. 2007-08-15. Confirmed 2011-05-10 #
 * Nelson M. Blachman, Ronald Christensen, Jessica M. Utts and David J. Finney. Letters to the Editor[?]. The American Statistician 50.1 (Feb 1996) 98–99.


 * 1) Exchange paradox cites 2006 and 2003 editions of these two articles.

Comments

 * ''As of 2011-07-06 all comments are by Richard D. Gill, User:Gill110951. --P64 (talk) 20:11, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the fourth reference: Nelson M. Blachman, Ronald Christensen, Jessica M. Utts wrote one letter to the editor (concerning the original paper of Christensen and Utts), and David J. Finney wrote another letter on another subject. Perhaps a better citation is:


 * Nelson M. Blachman, Ronald Christensen and Jessica M. Utts. Comment on Christensen and Utts (1992). Letters to the Editor, The American Statistician 50.1 (Feb 1996) 98–99.

Sources two and three appear to be unpublished manuscripts. Personally, I find neither very helpful. Indeed, on the two envelopes problem we have notes and references, further reading, and external links. At least one article appears on all three lists. This needs cleaning up. Richard Gill (talk) 18:37, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Apologies to Schwitzgebel and Dever. This paper appeared in the online journal Sorites. ISSN 1135-1349. http://www.sorites.org. Issue # 20 -- March 2008. Pp. 135-140.

Apologies to Priest and Restall. This paper appeared as pages 283-290 in Dialogues, Logics and Other Strange Things, essays in honour of Shahid Rahman, edited by Cédric Dégremont, Laurent Keiff and Helge Rückert, College Publications, 2008.