Joris Mulder’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Safe testing’ by Grünwald, de Heide, and Koolen
Joris Mulder 对《安全检验》的讨论评论
The potential of e-values (or e-variables) to unite different schools of statistics and allowing optional stopping/continuation in a ‘safe’ manner is a major accomplishment of the authors. The theory implies a change in focus from classical error rates to the expected evidence against the null under the respective hypotheses. Under H0, it is required that the expectation of the evidence against the null, E, should not exceed 1, i.e. EH0[E]≤1, as in formula (1) of ‘Safe…