What does "fiducial" mean (in the context of statistics)?
26 When I Google for "fisher" "fiducial" ...I sure get a lot of hits, but all the ones I've followed are utterly beyond my comprehension. All these hits do seem to have one thing in common: they …
What is the fiducial argument and why has it not been accepted?
One of the late contributions of R.A. Fisher was fiducial intervals and fiducial principled arguments. This approach however is nowhere near as popular as frequentist or Bayesian …
Fiducial Inference in Machine Learning - Cross Validated
I was looking at the Fiducial Inference page on wikipedia, which is an alternative to the traditional Frequentist and Bayesian standpoints. Although it was out of favour in mainstream statistics fo...
Understanding the Behrens–Fisher problem - Cross Validated
That is what led to fiducial inference. A Link to the Savage article The Biography by Fisher's daughter Joan Fisher Box R A Fisher An Appreciation, Hinkley and Feinberg editors A book by …
Multiple comparisons with p-value corrections of fiducial limits?
May 9, 2017 · We originally discussed differences based on non-overlapping fiducial limits, but a reviewer requested formal testing with correction for multiple comparisons. How'd you address …
inference - Behrens–Fisher problem - Cross Validated
Jul 24, 2012 · This problem was the one that exposed the difference between fiducial inference and the Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing approach. Prior to that Fisher recognized …
Doing "maximum p-value estimation" instead of maximum …
Nov 12, 2024 · This isn't exactly what you're asking, but you may be interested in reading about "Fiducial Inference". (This really answers the question "How can we turn a p-value into a …
Why do we use the Greek letter μ (Mu) to denote population …
Oct 17, 2019 · The new symbol appears in The Fiducial Argument in Statistical Inference (1935) and it went into the 1936 (sixth) edition of the Statistical Methods for Research Workers.
Value of Covariance term too high : multiple attempts to solve it
Mar 28, 2021 · I have a first array 5x1 Bias_sp_fid and a second one 5x1 Bias_ph_fid (fid for fiducial). I am working in astrophysics context on an observable called ' O ' and defined by the …
Compare 90th percentiles of two samples (confidence interval, test)
Dec 17, 2023 · Interpret the fiducial distributions as probabilitiy distributions (this is an approximation, the fiducial distribution does not behave exactly like a probability distribution) …