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Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
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Possible typo on p.1189 #269

Closed Duane321 closed 1 year ago

Duane321 commented 1 year ago

Edition: 2023-04-01, Advanced Topics

Not positive about this one, but I think tau, highlighted in red, should be 0.

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Otherwise, our estimator involves knowing the true tau? And it doesn't seem it would be an estimator, since if the tau AIPTW-estimator happen to equal the truth (tau), then the term with the red box would be zero.

murphyk commented 1 year ago

I'll ask the authors.

vveitch commented 1 year ago

Nice catch; the left hand side of this equation should have had a - \tau

murphyk commented 1 year ago

fixed