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Revisiting Simpson's Paradox: a statistical misspecification perspective
Aris Spanos
The primary objective of this paper is to revisit Simpson's paradox using a statistical misspecification perspective. It is argued that the reversal of statistical associations is…
Revisiting the Neyman-Scott model: an Inconsistent MLE or an Ill-defined Model?
Aris Spanos
The Neyman and Scott (1948) model is widely used to demonstrate a serious weakness of the Maximum Likelihood (ML) method: it can give rise to inconsistent estimators. The primary o…
The Two Envelope Problem: a Paradox or Fallacious Reasoning?
Aris Spanos
The primary objective of this note is to revisit the two envelope problem and propose a simple resolution. It is argued that the paradox arises from the ambiguity associated with t…
Where do statistical models come from? Revisiting the problem of specification
Aris Spanos
R. A. Fisher founded modern statistical inference in 1922 and identified its fundamental problems to be: specification, estimation and distribution. Since then the problem of stati…