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On rereading Savage
Yudi Pawitan, Youngjo Lee
If we accept Savage's set of axioms, then all uncertainties must be treated like ordinary probability. Savage espoused subjective probability, allowing, for example, the probabilit…
Lottery paradox, DNA evidence and other stories: How to accept uncertain statements
Yudi Pawitan
I think we can agree that dealing with uncertainty is not easy. Probability is the main tool for dealing with uncertainty, and we know there are many probability-related puzzles an…
A nonBayesian view of Hempel's paradox of the ravens
Yudi Pawitan
In Hempel's paradox of the ravens, seeing a red pencil is considered as supporting evidence that all ravens are black. Also known as the Paradox of Confirmation, the paradox and it…
Likelihood-based solution to the Monty Hall puzzle and a related 3-prisoner paradox
Yudi Pawitan
The Monty Hall puzzle has been solved and dissected in many ways, but always using probabilistic arguments, so it is considered a probability puzzle. In this paper the puzzle is se…
Dealing with multiple testing: To adjust or not to adjust
Yudi Pawitan, Arvid Sjölander
Multiple testing problems arise naturally in scientific studies because of the need to capture or convey more information with more variables. The literature is enormous, but the e…
Defending the P-value
Yudi Pawitan
Attacks on the P-value are nothing new, but the recent attacks are increasingly more serious. They come from more mainstream sources, with widening targets such as a call to retire…