A new look at fiducial inference

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Autori principali: Bissiri, Pier Giovanni, Holmes, Chris, Walker, Stephen
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author Bissiri, Pier Giovanni
Holmes, Chris
Walker, Stephen
author_facet Bissiri, Pier Giovanni
Holmes, Chris
Walker, Stephen
contents Since the idea of fiducial inference was put forward by Fisher, researchers have been attempting to place it within a rigorous and well motivated framework. It is fair to say that a general definition has remained elusive. In this paper we start with a representation of Bayesian posterior distributions provided by Doob that relies on martingales. This is explicit in defining how a true parameter value should depend on a random sample and hence an approach to "inverse probability" as originally conceived by Fisher. Taking this as our cue, we introduce a definition of fiducial inference that can be regarded as general.
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spellingShingle A new look at fiducial inference
Bissiri, Pier Giovanni
Holmes, Chris
Walker, Stephen
Methodology
Statistics Theory
Since the idea of fiducial inference was put forward by Fisher, researchers have been attempting to place it within a rigorous and well motivated framework. It is fair to say that a general definition has remained elusive. In this paper we start with a representation of Bayesian posterior distributions provided by Doob that relies on martingales. This is explicit in defining how a true parameter value should depend on a random sample and hence an approach to "inverse probability" as originally conceived by Fisher. Taking this as our cue, we introduce a definition of fiducial inference that can be regarded as general.
title A new look at fiducial inference
topic Methodology
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19172