Generating beliefs

• Introduction
• Abbreviations for constructing collections
  • Wildcards
  • Abbreviated notation for bases and elements
  • Base exclusion
  • Abbreviating collections of data-carrying elements
• Functional forms and indices
  • Modified indices
• Declaring and using linear combinations
  • Overview
  • Declaring assignments
  • Examples
  • Using assignments
  • Recursion in assignments
  • Deleting assignments
• Defining and using collections
  • Overview
  • Declaring bases
  • Other remarks
  • Deleting bases
• Declaring and using elements
  • Overview
  • Alternative expectation stores
  • Using elements to represent exchangeable sequences
  • Declaring elements
  • Changing expectations
• Declaring expectations for an explicit expectation store
  • Overview
  • Declaring single expectations
  • Direct numerical specification of alternative expectations
  • Deleting elements
• Declaring variances and covariances numerically
  • Overview
  • Declaring single covariances
  • Constructing variance matrices from other variance matrices
  • Direct numerical specification of variance matrices
  • Problems of asymmetry
• Functional belief specifications
  • An introduction to components
  • Declaring functional variances and covariances
  • Deleting functionally specified variances and covariances
  • Declaring functional expectations
  • Deleting functionally specified expectations
• Constructing beliefs from products of quantities
• Related commands
  • Forming covariances from beliefs expressed as cross-products
  • Locking and unlocking belief storage areas
  • Locking and unlocking expectation storage areas
• Generating beliefs automatically from sample covariances
• Constructing new elements from old
  • Example
  • Attaching data to the constructed element
• Generating many quantities together
  • Overview
  • Setting regular index ranges
  • Setting irregular index ranges
  • Deleting index ranges
  • Multivariate construction
  • Examples