Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil

Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil

The case of the Kandinsky painting and Bayes' theorem

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Norman Fenton
Oct 28, 2025
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“Painting with Houses” (Bild mit Hausern) by Wassily Kandinsk (1909)

In 2018 I posted the article below on my old blog about how I was asked by the lawyers in the case to provide a Bayesian analysis to determine the probability that the true owners of the Kandinsky painting called “Painting with Houses” (in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam), were the he…

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