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How strongly do observations support a hypothesis? This paper gives general criteria to be satisfied by any measure of the strength of evidence. It also defines two ways such a measure might be considered optimal.
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While the likelihood ratio measures the strength of evidence of one distribution over another, there is no general agreement on how to measure the strength of evidence for more general hypotheses. This paper explores some ways to do that using advances in information theory.
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This publication generalizes the likelihood measure of evidential support for a hypothesis with the help of tools originally developed by information theorists for minimizing the number of letters in a message. The approach is illustrated with an application to proteomics data.
David R. Bickel
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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This page is a summary of: Minimax-Optimal Strength of Statistical Evidence for a Composite Alternative Hypothesis, International Statistical Review, July 2013, Wiley, DOI: 10.1111/insr.12008.
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