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Main Author: Mugnier, Martin
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07251
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author Mugnier, Martin
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contents This note provides a conceptual clarification of Ronald Aylmer Fisher's (1935) pioneering exact test in the context of the Lady Testing Tea experiment. It unveils a critical implicit assumption in Fisher's calibration: the taster minimizes expected misclassification given fixed probabilistic information. Without similar assumptions or an explicit alternative hypothesis, the rationale behind Fisher's specification of the rejection region remains unclear.
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spellingShingle R. A. Fisher's Exact Test Revisited
Mugnier, Martin
Econometrics
This note provides a conceptual clarification of Ronald Aylmer Fisher's (1935) pioneering exact test in the context of the Lady Testing Tea experiment. It unveils a critical implicit assumption in Fisher's calibration: the taster minimizes expected misclassification given fixed probabilistic information. Without similar assumptions or an explicit alternative hypothesis, the rationale behind Fisher's specification of the rejection region remains unclear.
title R. A. Fisher's Exact Test Revisited
topic Econometrics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07251