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 are all written …
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...
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 principled argumen...
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) and compute the …
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 this …
Why do we use the Greek letter μ (Mu) to denote population mean or ...
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.
p-values for hypothesis testing - Cross Validated
Nov 10, 2024 · The reason for using those 'irrelevant' values is because fiducial probability, p-values, and confidence intervals answer a different question, or at least use a different approach (they …
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 philosophical …
Doing "maximum p-value estimation" instead of maximum likelihood
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 confidence …
In a Frequentist setting, how are we able to condition on the null ...
Nov 26, 2024 · The fiducial distribution, p-values and hypothesis tests don't require a frequentist setting where the parameter is not considered a variable. They are more generally a particular method for …