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| Format: | Preprint |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15608 |
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- The Full Bayesian Significance Test (FBST) possesses many desirable aspects, such as dismissing the need for hypotheses to have positive prior probability and providing a measure of evidence against $H_0$. Still, few attempts have been made to bring the FBST to nonparametric settings, with the main drawback being the need to obtain the highest posterior density (HPD) in a function space. In this work, we use a Gaussian processes prior to derive the FBST for hypotheses of the type $$ H_0: g(\boldsymbol{x}) = \boldsymbol{b}(\boldsymbol{x})\boldsymbolβ, \quad \forall \boldsymbol{x} \in \mathcal{X}, \quad \boldsymbolβ \in \mathbb{R}^k, $$ where $g(\cdot)$ is the regression function, $\boldsymbol{b}(\cdot)$ is a vector of linearly independent linear functions -- such as $\boldsymbol{b}(\boldsymbol{x}) = \boldsymbol{x}'$ -- and $\mathcal{X}$ is the covariates' domain. We also make use of pragmatic hypotheses to verify if the data might be compatible with a linear model when factors such as measurement errors or utility judgments are accounted for. This contribution extends the theory of the FBST, allowing its application in nonparametric settings and providing a procedure that easily tests if linear models are adequate for the data and that can automatically perform variable selection.