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仅基于似然函数的概率上界AI 解读

Summary In the problem of parametric statistical inference with a finite parameter space, we propose some simple rules for defining posterior upper and lower probabilities directly from the observed likelihood function, without using any prior information. The rules satisfy the likelihood principle and a basic consistency principle (‘avoiding sure loss’), they produce vacuous inferences when the likelihood function is constant, and they have other symmetry, monotonicity and…

多项数据的推断：从一袋弹珠中学习AI 解读

SUMMARY A new method is proposed for making inferences from multinomial data in cases where there is no prior information. A paradigm is the problem of predicting the colour of the next marble to be drawn from a bag whose contents are (initially) completely unknown. In such problems we may be unable to formulate a sample space because we do not know what outcomes are possible. This suggests an invariance principle: inferences based on observations should not depend on the…

统计证据的信念函数表示AI 解读

In Glenn Shafer's theory of parametric statistical inference, observational evidence and prior evidence are separately represented by belief or commonality functions $Q$ and $R$, which are then combined by Dempster's rule. We characterise, for finite parameter spaces, the functionals $Q$ and $R$ for which statistically independent observations may be combined by Dempster's rule, and those for which Dempster's rule is consistent with Bayes' rule. The functionals are…