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most citedLogically-consistent hypothesis testing in the hexagon of oppositions

24 citations · 45 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.LG2025

DiNo and RanBu: Lightweight Predictions from Shallow Random Forests

Tiago Mendonça dos Santos, Rafael Izbicki, Luís Gustavo Esteves

Random Forest ensembles are a strong baseline for tabular prediction tasks, but their reliance on hundreds of deep trees often results in high inference latency and memory demands,…

math.ST2022

The e-value and the Full Bayesian Significance Test: Logical Properties and Philosophical Consequences

Julio Michael Stern, Carlos Alberto de Braganca Pereira, Marcelo de Souza Lauretto +5

This article gives a conceptual review of the e-value, ev(H|X) -- the epistemic value of hypothesis H given observations X. This statistical significance measure was developed in o…

math.ST2022

Logical coherence in Bayesian simultaneous three-way hypothesis tests

Bernardo F. Reimann, Rafael Izbicki, Julio M. Stern +2

This paper studies whether Bayesian simultaneous three-way hypothesis tests can be logically coherent. Two types of results are obtained. First, under the standard error-wise const…

math.ST2019★ 1 cited

Teaching decision theory proof strategies using a crowdsourcing problem

Luis G. Esteves, Rafael Izbicki, Rafael B. Stern

Teaching how to derive minimax decision rules can be challenging because of the lack of examples that are simple enough to be used in the classroom. Motivated by this challenge, we…

math.LO2019★ 24 cited

Logically-consistent hypothesis testing in the hexagon of oppositions

Julio M. Stern, Luis G. Esteves, Rafael Izbicki +1

Although logical consistency is desirable in scientific research, standard statistical hypothesis tests are typically logically inconsistent. In order to address this issue, previo…

stat.ME2019★ 4 cited

Interpretable hypothesis tests

Victor Coscrato, Luís Gustavo Esteves, Rafael Izbicki +1

Although hypothesis tests play a prominent role in Science, their interpretation can be challenging. Three issues are (i) the difficulty in making an assertive decision based on th…

stat.OT2018★ 16 cited

Pragmatic hypotheses in the evolution of science

Luis G. Esteves, Rafael Izbicki, Rafael B. Stern +1

This paper introduces pragmatic hypotheses and relates this concept to the spiral of scientific evolution. Previous works determined a characterization of logically consistent stat…