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Testing Precise Hypotheses
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Testing of precise (point or small interval) hypotheses is reviewed, with special emphasis placed on exploring the dramatic conflict between conditional measures (Bayes factors and posterior probabilities) and the classical P-value (or observed significance level). This conflict is highlighted by finding lower bounds on the conditional measures over wide classes of priors, in normal and binomial situations, lower bounds, which are much larger than the P-value; this leads to the recommendation of several alternatives to P-values. Results are also given concerning the validity of approximating an interval null by a point null. The overall discussion features critical examination of issues such as the probability of objective testing and the possibility of testing from confidence sets.
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“The posterior probability of 'no effect' can be viewed as an approximation to the posterior probability of the effect being 'small,' namely, P lparenOSCASB vertSHT β vertSHT < ε rparenOSCASB , provided that ε is at most about onehalf of a standard error (Berger and Delampady, 1987).”
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“In fact, p -values arguably overstate the evidence for an effect even when there is no model uncertainty (Edwards, Lindman and Savage, 1963; Berger and Delampady, 1987; Berger and Sellke, 1987).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Berger, J. O., & Delampady, M.
- Venue
- Statistical Science
- Publisher
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Published
- 1987-08-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 317-335
- ISSN
- 0883-4237 (ISSN-L)
- 2168-8745
- OpenAlex
- W2128585330
- Cited by
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- References
- 35
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- FWCI
- 10.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Statistical Science (publishedVersion)
- Project Euclid (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Probability and Statistical Research
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Inference
- Keywords
- point null hypothesis, p-values, Bayes factor, posterior probability, normal distribution, binomial distribution, objective testing, confidence regions
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