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On admissibility in post-hoc hypothesis testing
Ben Chugg, Tyron Lardy, Aaditya Ramdas +1
The validity of classical hypothesis testing requires the significance level be fixed before any statistical analysis takes place. This is a stringent requirement. For instanc…
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Rao-Blackwellized e-variables
Dante de Roos, Ben Chugg, Peter Grünwald +1
We show that for any concave utility, the expected utility of an e-variable can only increase after conditioning on a sufficient statistic. The simplest form of the result has an e…