David Siegmund's contribution to the Discussion of “Estimating means of bounded random variables by betting” by Waudby-Smith and Ramdas
David Siegmund 对《通过下注估计有界随机变量均值》的讨论
This contribution by Waudby-Smith and Ramdas provides a host of new insights combined with a concise, yet comprehensive, historical review of “any time valid inference”, which has blossomed in recent years after the hiatus that followed its beginnings in the mid-20th Century. Particularly, attractive is the authors’ systematic use of martingales of the form (29) to facilitate the betting interpretation and give unified derivations of a large diversity of inequalities. Given…