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Flexible distribution-free conditional predictive bands using density estimators
Rafael Izbicki, Gilson T. Shimizu, Rafael B. Stern
Conformal methods create prediction bands that control average coverage under no assumptions besides i.i.d. data. Besides average coverage, one might also desire to control conditi…
Conditional independence testing: a predictive perspective
Marco Henrique de Almeida Inácio, Rafael Izbicki, Rafael Bassi Stern
Conditional independence testing is a key problem required by many machine learning and statistics tools. In particular, it is one way of evaluating the usefulness of some features…
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…
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…
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…