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And you can model this through two survival functions, one thin-tailed and one heavy-tailed. As time increases, whatever your initial probability of "package will be very late" it will be dwarfed by the posterior after evidence of a long waiting time.

It's the exact same technique used in https://two-wrongs.com/forecasting-covid-19-variants.html except applied to "packages that may be late" instead.



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