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Comment by augment_me

4 days ago

A bit like "they do not have cancer", if you are fitting to a distribution you will have the best results by estimating an average. Being hetero is the majority/average, so a good prediction.

But doing this on a 20-way parlay like in this case will almost always fail.

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